the-play.txt, cr 06 mar 2008 by rha on thales2 being a C/S conversation (outline) ============================== The Characters: C = Client, has browser CB and player CP (assumed QT) S = Server, has everything else Act 1 C hears on the grapevine that S has a free multilingual movie collection C points CB to S and requests the movie request page, movie-form.html S sends the movie-form to CB Act 2 C chooses a movie with one click and submits the form to S (the movie request is addressed to test2.php) S runs PHP on the movie request and it: 2a: writes a temporary SMIL script to the file temp.smil, and 2b: sends an HTML page with an embedded call to temp.smil back to CB Act 3 The requested movie begins to play immediately in CB end of play =============================