The circus is back to town.

That's right: the last circus article was posted almost four months ago. Real life took its toll.

So what happened in the scant time I could spare?

The CGI client is now awake and kicking.
It is especially security-conscious: secure cookies, nonce tokens, cache control… The only missing technology is Post/Redirect/Get; I keep that for later as it needs important changes (esp. more roundtrips with the server).
The CGI client uses a code generator that translates a JSON file to web actions. It greatly simplifies adding new pages!

A new manual test script was added. It starts the server and a local web server (lighttpd).

The administration pages are complete (or complete enough for an alpha release).

The user pages are work in progress. They are the core of the system, and I want that part done right! Especially the password generator. It will use a similar algorithm to pwd's, but maybe mix ideas from e.g. pwgen.

There is still a lot of work to do; the clowns still need to apply makeup instead of fooling around. But hearts stay light under the marquee!