WACS: Web Applications

Contents

• retrieval infrastructure programs
• tools for handling tags infrastructure

• wacsfull - send the full size image from a set - for image 45 of set 123, call with wacsfull/set123-45.jpg
• wacsimg - send the icon for the specified set - for set 123, to get the icon call with wacsimg/set123.jpg. To force it to produce only official icons, call with wacsimg/icon123.jpg. For scaling to the standard icon size, as specified in the configuration file layout section option "thumbsize", use wacsimg/std123.jpg. To get a minature icon as specified by the "minisize" option, use wacsimg/mini123.jpg
• wacsindex - provide details of, and thumbnails of the specified set - for set 123, call with wacsindex/set123.html. Note that this has now been enhanced to include the official icon if available, and attempts to make some kind of page for videos as well. It will also include any set description (sdesc) that has been added for that set. It will also show any additional icons that have been associated via the additional icons (saddicon) field. If called with wacsindex/page123.html, it will produce a new-format multi-page index instead of the standard full set page. Subsequent pages are called by wacsindex/page123-2.html and so on.
• wacsthumb - provide the specified thumbnail image from the set - for the thumbnail image for image 45 of set 123, call with wacsthumb/set123-45.jpg
• wacszip - retrieve actual content. For an image set, it returns a zip file; for a video set the video file. It can be called with any of the supported extensions (.zip, .wmv, .mpg or .mov) and will return the content regardless. Generally, getting the extension right is vital to the browser doing the right thing, but wacszip doesn't care! Examples of use would be wacszip/set123.zip and wacszip/set456.mpg.

• wacsaddtag adds a model or set to a tag. In order to simplify the process of tag handling and make it modular and distinct from each of the retrieval tools that might wish to use it, tags are actually manipulated using completely separate cgi-bin programs. These are called with the necessary parameters to do the tag manipulation requested and return a PNG image on completion - a tick for success, a cross for failure. Thus addtag is called repeatedly to add each entry into a tag group. At the simplest level, there are two default temporary tag sets, tag set no 1 for sets, and tag set no 2 for models. To add set 123 to the default tag set for sets, you would call wacsaddtag with wacsaddtag/S123. To add model 12 to the default tag set for models, call it with wacsaddtag/M12.

  To provide a better interface for the search engine to use, wacsaddtag also has two more complex options, A and G. These each take three arguments separated by equals signs; A is for sets and takes desired tag number, set to add to it, and description of this tag; G is the equivalent for models and takes tag number, model number and tag description. Thus to add set 123 to tag set 456 and call it Cuties Outdoors, you would call wacsaddtag with wacsaddtag/A456=123=Cuties+Outdoors. For models, say you want to add Sarah (model 63) to Cute Redheads (tag 789), you call wacsaddtag with wacsaddtag/G789=63=Cute+Redheads.

• wacsdeltag removes the specified item from the specified tag set. To remove set 123 from tag set 456, you would call wacsdeltag with wacsdeltag/S456=123 - note that the tag number always follows the key letter. To delete all entries in tag set 456, you would call it with wacsdeltag/S456=all. Wacsdeltag also does the same with models, so to delete Sarah (model 63) from tag set 789, you would use wacsdeltag/M789=63. Once again, if you put all, you can delete that entire model-based tag set, as in wacsdeltag/M789=all.