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General Configuration Form Manager

General Configuration Form Manager

Generic Configuration Form Manager (GCFM aka webconfig) is a minimalist web server which provides some web service to update configuration file. A web-service skeleton is provide in directory skel as an example to develop specific configuration file editor. Mostly one need to customize the help tab message and the import/export function in the script.inc.js file.

Moreover, GCFM also provides a form to configure the minimalist web server in order to enable configuration editor services. It allows to:

load the web server configuration file from a server,
save a modified web server configuration file to a server,
import a web server configuration file from local file-system,
export a modified configuration to local file-system,
and, obviously, to change alias name, directory name, configuration file name and service description of installed configuration file editors.

Server usage

GCFM provides webconfig, the generic configuration form server. This daemon is a small web server which supplies a basic support needed to update configuration file remotely.

It can serve HTML pages, CSS and JavaScript files, and images (PNG, JPEG and ICO format only) on GET requests. It also do automatic redirection to index.html for request on directory name.

On POST request, webconfig parses two variables: action and data. action could be "load", "save" or "refresh". Action "load" will provide an XML file containing the desired configuration file encoded in base64 format. Action "save" will save on local file system the contain of data into the desired configuration file after decoding the base64 format. A status is provided in an XML response. Action "refresh" will force webconfig to reload its configuration.

XML response is composed, named message, is composed of two fields: stat containing the last action status (0 stands for OK, and 1 for KO) and, optionally, data containing the downloaded file encoded in base64 format.

Form skeleton

Screen-shots

Welcome/Service list view

Help view

Edit view

Download

Source packages

Debian packages

Webconfig version 1.16.1

Requirements

GCFM only requires python. It has been tested on python 2.7 for Linux.

Install

To install, one only needs to

unpack the archive in an accessible directory,
file alias.csv must be writable for server user,
start web server on port 8042 with command ./webconfig.

Changelogs

GCFM 1.16.1 (Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:41:00 +0200)

Add default resource directory into daemon script

GCFM 1.16.0 (Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:48:34 +0200)

Support multiple alias files
Better exception management

GCFM 1.14.0 (Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:50:49 +0200)

New server feature, 'file' for direct download
Support https connexion

GCFM 1.12.6 (Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:45:32 +0100)

Change cursor during apply action

GCFM 1.12.5 (Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:16:35 +0200)

Fix import file

GCFM 1.12.4 (Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:52:42 +0200)

Fixes for ie6 and ie7

GCFM 1.12.3 (Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:07:37 +0200)

Fixes for ie6

GCFM 1.12.2 (Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:35:43 +0200)

Support semi-column in action command
Protect file openings in daemon
Fix skeleton

GCFM 1.12.1 (Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:21:50 +0200)

Fix latest issues to support IE
Fix skeleton
Better error handling on server

GCFM 1.12 (Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:16:56 +0200)

Right click on redirection opens a new tab/window
Protect server from python trace back
Full support for ie
Update skeleton

GCFM 1.10 (Sat, 03 May 2014 00:11:10 +0200)

Forbid sending background request during script action
Add password to access edition features
Allow redirection button
Allow title customization

GCFM 1.8.1 (Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:31:10 +0100)

Remove control sequence from command output

GCFM 1.8 (Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:22:24 +0100)

Enhance service list
Add action button management

GCFM 1.6.1 (Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:29:39 +0100)

Fix hidden menu (different behaviour on context menu than on click

GCFM 1.6 (Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:09:45 +0100)

Backport functions from xcfe
Add ENABLE variable for daemon activation control
Replace anchor by goto_url javascript function in service list
Add forgotten js files in package
New rule to ease debian packaging
Patch for chromiun
Fix incorrect post request answer
Fix service list
Fix check input

GCFM 1.4.1 (Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:28:34 +0100)

Enhance alias table editor

GCFM 1.4 (Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:09:13 +0100)

Backport from xcfe: input checking, menu, and xml parser
Remove item without description from list

GCFM 1.2 ( Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:30:49 +0100)

Popup a selector window on export
Add an 'apply' action
Correct export feature
Correct spelling
Fix string request split, avoid issue on base64 decoding
Fix user account properties

GCFM 1.0 (Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:50:26 +0100)

Initial version

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