Web-GMUI

Web-GMUI is a remote web interface for MLdonkey, aMule, rTorrent and giFT.

A main aim is to combine GUIs for p2p programs in one application
to save overall work and to cover many different needs and tastes.

Note:
Supported platforms so far are Windows, Linux (i386) and MacOSX (i386).
It's still beta and may crash. No warranty.

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Old homepage (PHP project)

Quick Start

Features:

• A skinned HTML and a JavaScript based gui (AJAX with JSON)
• Integrated web server.
• UTF-8 support
• Customizability (CSS/JS/HTML/D)
• No installation needed: download&run
• SSL cryptography
• HTTP basic authentification
• Languages: english, german, spanish, polish, galician, brazilian portugese, dutch, danish, swedish, french
• Flexible api to cover most network features/designs.
• Preliminary account support.
• Download unfinished files for preview (also remote for MLDonkey)

Beta phase plans:

• bugfixes :P
• login page / authentification forwarding to client
• binaries for PPC/MIPS/ARM/SPARC; Windows64bit; *BSD
• save/restore gui settings
• improved html/css design
• improved client support
• complete/more translations
• proper chunk display

Future plans

• multi user support
• a "real" gui (GTK+/wxWidgets/QT?/..)
• more different web guis/styles/themes
• more supported clients / integrated clients?

FAQ:

• download the program
• start it in your console/or double click on windows
• open up your browser and go to "http://127.0.0.1:8080"
• click on the "Clients" tab
• enter connection settings and click on "Add", then on "Connect"
• click on the downloads panel etc.

• go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/json/
• Optional: make it the default gui
  • use the html gui and go to „User Settings“
  • change the "User Interface" setting to "JS GUI"

• Start Web-GMUI with command line parameter -m "0.0.0.0"

• you want probably allow access from outside first, start web-gmui with command line parameter -m "0.0.0.0"
• in the html gui, go to „User Settings“
• enter a password for the current user ("admin") and click on "save"
• set "Enable SSL" and "Basic Authentification" to "On" and click on "save"
• Note: plain http access is disabled now
• go to the browser url and change "http" to "https" and press enter
• you will be prompted to accept the certificate
• accept the certificate to be able to access the web interface again

• IE has a long (not finished) history for non standard compliant browsers.
• I have no time atm. for IE specific workarounds
• Hence, IE6/7 isn't supported atm.
• Get IE8, Firefox, Opera etc.

• Note: this will work only if Web-GMUI and the client have direct access to the clients temp directory
• select a client on the Clients panel
• go to the Client Settings panel and look for the temp directory setting
• set that setting to your clients temp directory
• Web-GMUI will now serve these files from hard disk instead using the gui protocol

• „Module Settings“ => „Core“
• Check the panel items and click „Apply“ to have items loaded/unloaded

• Web-GMUI started out as a PHP program (a fork of Zuul)
• The old PHP code is present in SVN, but unmaintained.
• Current Web-GMUI is a complete rewrite in D and does have different aims.
• Multi user capabilities are not useable yet, but will be extended at some point.

• The previous code base was written in PHP.
  But it lacks ways to handle binary data and was slow. Not very elegant. It's no fun.
• I wrote a Demo in Java with servlets.
  The code separation wasn't good and the language was bloated; framework overkill;
  the runtime size was big => not suited for routers
• I wrote a Demo in C/C++; a simple webserver and apache module.
  But it was difficult to code quickly. Error message ofuscation.
  A JSON handler template became a nightmare (~1000 LOC); ~500LOC in readable D
• D is similar in speed and grammar to C/C++;
  nice error messages; cleaner/more powerfull grammar; fast coding; fun.

Contributions

• Submit a bug report.
• Return feedback (e.g. Theme xy made me cry.).
• Add/improve translations.
• Add/improve CSS themes.
• Compile code for different platforms.
• Improve/extend the program code/api design.

How to alter/add themes

• Under Construction.
• (see README.txt svn)

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