I’ve been toying with hosting webpages directly from an Agent and one issue I came across was how to store/serve image assets. (Text files like HTML and JavaScript are pretty straightforward through Squirrel verbatim strings and using two double quotes to escape all " characters).
Anyway, I came up with the idea to store the image as a Base64 encoded string. Attached is a working example for anyone that is curious. You can use somewhere like
We’ve done a few projects that host webpages out of agents. Take a look at our SnackBot agents code for a good starting place
We don’t store images as base64 encoded strings (that’s quite clever though) - we try to find images that are creative commons, and just link to those.
deldrid1 Excellent idea, thanks for sharing that. I was wondering whether something like this was possible, fully self contained web page and assets from an agent. Excited to try this out.
… which now leads me to ask, is there a size restriction for an Agent (or restrictions, file size? Lines? Compiled / bytecode size? RAM on the server? etc.)
I’ve tried to use CDN’s for as many things as possible but there are a few things that sometimes you just need custom for a webpage :).
@kcampbell - I know there is a 1mb ram (as returned by imp.getmemoryfree()) limitation and I’d imagine there is also a compiled by bytecode size (which const variables like my image strategy would go toward) but I don’t know how big that is.
