Re: Definitions of "Console" and "CLI" expanded

[Perry E.Metzger <perry@piermont.com>]

George Jones <gmj@pobox.com> writes:
> I'm finishing off loose ends/respond to outstanding comments
>
> One is trying to reconcile the "RS232 is old as dirt and just works"
> style console with the reality that it's *starting* to go away, and a
> ethernet based interface, possibly supporting its own IP stack and
> HTTP/HTML interface could meet the console requirements.

Far better, IMHO, is the console processor/console ethernet supporting
ssh. It is secure and you can get to a nice CLI that way that's
compatible with the one on your RS232 equipment. When stuff ends up
being done by HTTP, you just end up building page shredders ("screen
scrapers") to get back the data you needed from the web page.

It would be nice if the language didn't imply that HTTP/HTML is the
preferred replacement for a CLI over RS232...

Perry