<div dir="auto">Express is pretty much the defacto web container for nodejs. It allows for middleware such as a very configurable CORS middleware. I think if you search on /express CORS/ you will find the CORS middleware, available in npm. The reason my code is so long is that I attach content type headers to the response. Looking further into express will probably show some middleware which does content type, making the server code much simpler. There is a wide variety of middleware for express.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In any case, the ttf URLs in the X3DOM hello world code seem to be causing me issues. I don’t have local ttf files available in my express server.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don’t see JavaScript much different than Python in NetBeans. I’m still looking for Python support in NetBeans 12. NetBeans 8 yes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am merely offering my noob experience for setting up express. There’s a lot more to it for professional use.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you can get the nodejs http server working with real X3D files with URLs, ExternProtoDeclares, security etc., I would be interested. I’ll stick with my existing infrastructure until then.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think I left my express server code on GitHub in usable state, and it includes the OpenSSL command for creating secret keys.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Beware of CSRF with the default python web server. Django has a solution.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Likely Spring Boot is the best choice overall</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note that I don’t know if it’s possible to download the keys from my server. Something to check for. Sigh!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Backend programming really is not friendly to the casual programmer, and offering simple solutions is probably charlatanism.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But we’re just offering a starting point. I think that the express infrastructure is more honest than a simple http server, but I’d love to be proven wrong.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In any case, I look forward to a Java or Jetty server integration with NetBeans/X3D-Edit</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:43 PM Don Brutzman <<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">brutzman@nps.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Node.js documentation:<br>
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* How do I create a HTTP server? 2011-08-26<br>
<a href="https://nodejs.org/en/knowledge/HTTP/servers/how-to-create-a-HTTP-server/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nodejs.org/en/knowledge/HTTP/servers/how-to-create-a-HTTP-server/</a><br>
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Looks super simple.<br>
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Any use of X3D-Edit with node.js would require download/housekeeping. Perhaps someday we might encourage such integration (especially if Netbeans adds it) but seems premature now. Will stay focused on editing X3D.<br>
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On 6/20/2021 8:42 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:<br>
> The CORS work remains under testing and development.<br>
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> Node.js http server is possible but not a common install for end users, and so integrating a native Java and Jetty approaches are preferred for authors testing a model conversion. We've added Python as an option to X3D-Edit since that is fairly common and easy to test.<br>
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> Thanks but no thanks for server keys, we won't be distributing anything like that with X3D-Edit. Design goal remains safe and secure throughout.<br>
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> No need for https since this is for local user on local machine testing that their X3D model can run together with X_ITE or X3DOM.<br>
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all the best, Don<br>
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