Web-Based Apps without Web server installed

scoppc

Recently I used a software called Proxy+.
Well, the name explains its functions.

The thing that make me curious is that this software has web-based administration application which can be accessed from web browser at http://192.168.0.1:4400

I can set the proxy server settings (port and stuffs) from the web interface. When I tried to view the source... it's all in HTML.
I cant find any ASP/PHP/CFML/JSP or any other files on the installation directory.

Data from the FORM is posted via GET and the action attribute contains no file name, contrary to what I did in developing website.

<form action="network" method="get">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="600">
<tr><td align="right" width="160">WWW Admin </td><td width="20">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" width="40">Port:</td><td width="360"><input type="text" size="5"name="AdminPort" value="4400"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" width="160">HTTP Proxy </td><td width="20"><input type="checkbox" name="HTTPEnable" checked></td>

Could anyone explain what kind of programming language it might used and how?

Coz I think this is great as we dont need to set up any web server, install PHP and MySQL to get a web-based application to work.

Thx in advanced.

laserlight

It could have its own specialised web browser.

MarkR

A proxy server acts as an intermediate between a client and web server.

If it wants, it can "pretend" to be a web server too. This is what some proxy servers do for web-based admin.

The proxy "pretends" to be a web server, and serves pages from an internal management application.

This does not need to be CGI etc, it can be completely built into the proxy.

I have used a proxy server called Middleman which has a web-based admin, the URL is http://mman/

Which of course doesn't really exist, but because it can intercept requests, it can make it exist.

Mark

Weedpacket

Like any other program, an http server can be implemented in hardware, too; so it should be even easier to build one into another program!