[Planetlab-devel] nodes with small capacities - memory footprint, xmlrpc, and requirements on encryption s/w]

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Hello Luigi,

On May 30, 2008, at 7:10 AM, luigi wrote:
> marc, thierry,
> Marta forwarded me these email, i realize i am not a member of
> the planetlab-devel list, so can you please add me ?

Done.

>
> On the topic - i did not want to replace sha with something else,
> just to know which functionalities I should add to my tiny C code
> to talk to MyPLC

OK... got Thierry's email and already responded.

> SHA is one piece and i have no problem with it, i was wondering if
> there is some other thing (crypto, encoding, etc.) that is used
> right now.

For now I think it is ok to assume SHA.

> Just for the records, the code i posted can already run queries  
> such as
> these
>
>> ./xmlrpc $URL "GetNodes($AUTHSTRING, {dummybox_id=60},  
>> ['node_id','hostname','slice_ids'])"
> got [{slice_ids=[6],node_id=10,hostname="node2.iet.unipi.it"}, 
> {slice_ids=[7,6],node_id=13,hostname="node5.iet.unipi.it"}]

Excellent.


> and I am planning to extend my code so one can pull selected fields
> from the response. This should make it easy to manipulate the data  
> from
> C or Shell or other scripts.


Very nice.


> It will _not_ evolve to a fully featured programming language.

Famous last words? :)

Cheers,
Marc