Thanks, Milan. Very helpful. I see that the server doesn't need to be  
aware of the data type of the content because you use an embedded  
object in the browser's code to circumvent. I know basically how to  
do that, so I'm off to do some trial work now.

Dan

On May 28, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Milan Zimmermann wrote:

> Dan,
>
> A few notes below:
>
> On 2006 May 28 02:32, Dan Shafer wrote:
>> OK, I downloaded the Squeak plug-in and I seem to be able to
>> access .pr files stored on other sites. But how do I deploy a Squeak
>> project as a plugin? I think the questions I need answered are:
>>
>> 1.  What does the server (Apache) need to know in order to serve
>> Squeak projects as files? Anything?
>
> I am using Kom as Http server (not Apache), and this is the piece  
> of HTML that
> works - I guess it piggibacks the .pr file through squeakland. The  
> only
> important thing is the href:
>
> <a
> href="http://www.squeakland.org/project.jsp?http://squeakers.ca: 
> 9090/squeak/games/FishTank-link.pr"><img
>  alt="&quot;Squeak&quot;saver" title="Make your own  
> &quot;Squeak&quot;saver"
>  src="squeak/games/FishTank-link.gif"
>  style="border: 5px solid ; width: 250px; height: 175px;"></a>
>
> I suspect it will work on Apache as well, but do not know for sure.
>
> Perhaps you can start with this, just t test your project works  
> etc, and take
> it from there, ask questions , plus more info about the HTTP plugin:
>
> http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bert/squeak/plugin/test/ 
> plugintest.html
> http://www.squeakland.org/plugin/launch.html
> http://squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland/2004-October/002230.html
>
> and this message from Diego I saved:
> ------------------
> And also:
>
> failureURL="http:// 
> www.whereYouCanFindAnInstallerForTheMissingImage.com"
>
>>> <OBJECT
>>>     ID="SqueakOCX Control"
>>        imageName="MySqueak.image"
>>>     WIDTH=1024 HEIGHT=768
>>>     ALIGN=center BORDER=2
>>>     CLASSID="CLSID:2BE9C39E-8386-4435-B337-FCDAD8EAB006"
>>>
> CODEBASE="http://www.squeakland.org/installers/ 
> SqueakPluginInstaller.exe">
>>>
>>> <embed
>>>     type="application/x-squeak-source"
>>        imageName="MySqueak.image"
>>>     ALIGN="CENTER"
>>>     WIDTH="1024"
>>>     HEIGHT="768"
>>>     pluginspage="http://www.squeakland.org/detect.html"
>>>     update_url="http://www.squeakland.org/update/"
>>>     ></embed>
>>> </OBJECT>
> ------------------
>
>> 2.  Will detection of the plugin be semi-automatic? I.e., if a user
>> without the plugin tries to download a Squeak project, will he get an
>> error, an ugly binary dump or something meaningful?
>
> From what I remember, in the life without the plugin in all my  
> browsers, if
> done "correctly" it will redirect user to the site where to find  
> the plugin.
> If you use the simple version on top, it will do it right.
>
>> 3.  Anything else I need to know about deployment?
>
> I am sure there is more and people more qualified will comment,  
> hopefully the
> above is a start,
>
> Milan
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Dan
>