WITH - A web interface to Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg67126] WITH - A web interface to Mathematica
- From: "Dave (from the UK" <may-2006 at southminster-branch-line.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:10:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
(note, this email address is valid and will be for a few months at leas. Make the obvious changes in a few months). I've written a short open-source PHP script that when installed on a UNIX/Linux web server with Mathematica, allows use of Mathematica via any browser. There's support for 2D & 3D graphics, but not the live interactive graphics. There's some screen shots on both desktop computers as well as a handheld PDA (hp iPAQ) at http://witm.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php There are no special requirements for the browser - no need for cookies, JavaScript etc. Since 1) This allows access to almost all Mathematica functions, including Run[] which allows arbitrary commands to be executed. 2) Most (if not possibly all) Mathematica licenses don't allow unrestricted access, then WITM must obviously only be installed on a password protected system, to restrict access. (Apache provides a mechanism for this). I've not tried it over a Secure Socket Layer (i.e https://...) connection, but it should work fine on that. More info on the Souceforge site: http://witm.sourceforge.net/ It's licensed under the GNU General Public License. David Kirkby