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  1. Thanks much. Can't wait to see it. Gramps
  2. I have been developing web applications for a while, and more recently HTA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application) applications (delivering client/server apps running on the desktop rather than the web). UniServer is a nice clean structure for doing just that. I have several uses for my UniServer tools. 1) I like to do most of my checkout of the web programs offline, and I like to have the exact HTML and programs in checkout that I will use online. Nothing like screwing up a CC gateway connection to make a client unhappy. So for this purpose, I modify my 'hosts' file, do the Virtual Hosts in Apache .conf file, and everything is fine. I came across your description of PACs, which are another nice way to get my local machine and server to handle the pages with the same URL I will have online. 2) I would like to develop a small sample HTA for a client, as an illusltration of what the eventual web site will look like and operate. If I use the hosts change or PAC file, I need to modify the target machine to make things work (if I use target URLs). This is often not possible, or not a good idea for some clients. If I use 'localhost', as your APanel does, I can set the whole application up on a memory stick, click on a couple of things, and we're running the app. Very slick. HOWEVER, if I use the second method, I have to stick to using localhost, and the pages have to be designed to use that url. If I use a 'real' url, I have to change the client machine. My final option is to set the virtual host config for Apache to use a port, and use that port in my urls for the app. So unless I happen to choose a port that conflicts with something else running on the client machine, I can plug in the stick, click on startup scripts, and we're off. My question is this (and you though I'd never get to it)... since I didn't know about PACs until I read the UniServer docs, is there anything else I'm missing? That is, does another method exist to provide the url->server connection to a browser, other than: 1. Use of localhost with ports 2. Use of 'hosts' file 3. Use of PAC, telling browser where it is 4. DynDNS? 5. Other methods? Whew. Gramps
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