All the articles I've seen in Circuit Cellar regarding embedded web servers use embedded PC's, such as a PC/104 device, which is basically a single board PC. This makes the design much easier since actual PC hardware and software can be adapted for the interface and TCP/IP stack. While it is not impossible, a PIC based embedded web server would be significantly more effort. CIAO - Martin. On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:30:42 -0500, John Hansen wrote: >At 10:59 AM 1/30/98 +1300, Andrew Mayo wrote: >>Well, essentially we're just using http as the protocol, which is just >>simple ASCII, but of course an embedded Web server is expected to >>support a range of communications protocols, and although simple RS-232 >>is one of them, and trivial to implement, what if you want to connect >>this embedded Web server onto a LAN?. I think you need more smarts than >>a PIC to handle the communications. If the PIC device needs a terminal >>server to get data, it ain't much of an embedded device. > >Would the Motorola MC68160 with a MC68360 make the nut here? This is what >the TAPR group is using as the ethernet interface for their spread spectrum >radio. I have no idea what these chips cost, and the 68360 seems to be a >microprocessor itself, but if there was a two chip solution to this it >would make a very small embedded webserver. > >I saw the article in the latest issue of Circuit Cellar, Inc, on this, but >I couldn't find any indication of how the communications were being >handled. There was also a reference in that issue to a previous issue that >I don't have that discussed putting a tcp/ip stack in a PIC. That article >might have had information on interfacing it. > >John Hansen Martin R. Green elimar@NOSPAMbigfoot.com To reply, remove the NOSPAM from the return address. Stamp out SPAM everywhere!!!