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

[George Jones <gmj@pobox.com>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Perry E.Metzger wrote:

>
> 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...

Well, this (including private replies) is sounding unanimous....

---George