WebPipe

webpipe is a companion web front-end for newspipe that allows you to keep track of read news items, flag items for follow-up and generate a “metafeed” of all your news that you can view on a PDA or on any web browser.

It was designed to run on pretty much any web server running a stock install of PHP (requiring nothing more than the IMAP extension), under any sort of user account, and in close relationship to newspipe (it takes a few shortcuts to parse and display newspipe’s specific MIME format).


Requirements

You need:

Configuration


FAQ

Actually, no. Let’s say you’re out with your PDA and want to keep up with the news, but only have Web access. Using webpipe, you can quickly check your latest newspipe items, flag messages for follow-up and delete the ones you’re not interested in.

Of course not. webpipe is a very simple IMAP-to-web shim that only understands newspipe’s simple MIME structure.

Not yet. The templates and code were kept simple enough so that a WAP version can be put together with minimal fuss (provided someone codes the required encoding and content paging logic). The original version of webpipe used XSLT transforms with an intent to accomplish that, but I couldn’t be bothered.

Most likely not. PHP’s imap_open supports POP3, but some of the operations (deleting, )

Well, because the URLs are simpler and mostly because my Blackberry would choke on multi-parameter GETs for some reason. This way it doesn’t have to understand what it’s doing.

One of each, basically:


Contact

Please bear in mind that THIS IS NOT PART OF NEWSPIPE. It is only a humble contribution. As such, please direct any gripes, bug reports, etc. directly to me (you’ll find the e-mail address on that page).

Acknowledgements

webpipe wouldn’t have sprung into life without Ricardo M. Reyes’ newspipe. Bruno David changed newspipe’s MIME structure to what it is today.