[developers] online treebanking

[Woodley Packard]

You could have multiple instances on different ports, or possibly different IP addresses if you are multihomed.  You will not find it easy to add a --url option though, if you expect to be able to add a path after the host name and also be able to run multiple instances on different such URLs with the same host name and port.

Woodley



> On Mar 17, 2017, at 7:16 PM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Woodley Packard
> <sweaglesw at sweaglesw.org> wrote:
>> 
>> FFTB only listens on 127.0.0.1, so it will not be straightforward with a standard FFTB binary to invite audience members to point their browsers at some URL and start treebanking.  You easily could modify this (web.c around line 1279) if so inclined, or do something clever with routing tables perhaps or connection forwarding, but I’m not sure how well the user experience would hold up well with many users simultaneously connecting to the same server process.  It might work, depending on the quantity of users.
>> 
>> I hope that clarifies things at least somewhat,
> 
> It does, thank you.  We will try to play with it a little (in which
> case we will try to add 'url' as another command line option).  I
> guess we could have multiple fftb instances pointed at different
> profiles with different urls to avoid an overloaded server, right?
> 
> 
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> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University