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ODM
Device Manager for ONVIF-based Network video devices.
ODM is a ONVIF protocol implementation of Network Video Client (NVC) to manage Network Video Transmitters (NVT), Network Video Storage (NVS) and Network Video Analytics (NVA) devices. Implements Discovery, Device, Media, Imaging, Analytics, Events and PTZ services. Write in C# and uses ffmpeg for media decoding. -
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The portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK provides support for building UPnP-compliant control points, devices, and bridges on several operating systems. The main repository is at GitHub in https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp. This is just a clone repository for legacy reasons. Old SourceForge repo: git://pupnp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pupnp/pupnp
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a POSIX-C implementation of the http://oauth.net/ protocol. libOauth provides functionality to encode URLs and sign HTTP request data according to the oAuth standard.
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PDF.js
A PDF Reader in JavaScript
PDF.js is a web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering Portable Document Formats (PDFs). Open source and built with HTML5, this PDF viewer is supported by a great community and Mozilla Labs. PDF.js can be used on both modern and older browsers, and is built into version 19+ of Firefox. -
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PreMiD
Source code of the PreMiD application
Source code of the PreMiD application. PreMiD is a simple, configurable utility that allows you to show what you're doing on the web in your Discord now playing status. It supports many different websites, and will support multiple users watching the same content simultaneously in an upcoming update. -
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phpipam
phpipam open-source IP address management
phpipam is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management. It is php-based application with MySQL database backend, using jQuery libraries, ajax and some HTML5/CSS3 features. -
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Vienna
An open source Mac OSX RSS reader with support for RSS/Atom feeds
Vienna is an open source Mac OSX RSS reader with support for RSS/Atom feeds, article storage and management via a SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa. Feeds can be accessed directly, or through a syncing service supporting the Open Reader API, like BazQux.com, FeedHQ.org, InoReader.com or TheOldReader.com. Development now happens on GitHub: https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss -
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Mongoose Embedded Web Server
An embedded web server
Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It is designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on the International Space Station! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy. Cross-platform, works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows, Android, FreeRTOS, etc. Supported embedded architectures: ESP32, NRF52, STM32, NXP, and more. Built-in protocols: plain TCP/UDP, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket. SSL/TLS support: mbedTLS, OpenSSL or custom (via API). Used to solve a wide range of business needs, like implementing Web UI interface on devices, RESTful API services, telemetry data exchange, remote control for a product, remote software updates, remote monitoring, and others. -
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Docker Compose
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
Docker Compose is an open source tool for defining and running multi-container applications with Docker. Compose lets you use a YAML file to configure your application’s services, and then create and start all the services from your configuration with just a single command. Compose works great in all environments: production, staging, testing, development, and on CI workflows. Compose has commands for every stage of your application lifecycle, from starting, stopping and rebuilding services, through to status viewing, streaming of log output and running a one-off command on a service. -
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Sentinel
Lightweight, powerful flow control component
Sentinel is a powerful flow control component that ensures the reliability and monitoring of microservices by taking “flow” as the breakthrough point. It covers multiple fields including flow control, concurrency limiting, circuit breaking, and adaptive system protection. -
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Lighthouse
Automated auditing, performance metrics, & best practices for the web
Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool that analyzes and audits web apps and web pages in order to improve their quality. Lighthouse collects modern performance metrics and insights on developer best practices; auditing for performance, accessibility, SEO and more. After auditing it produces a report either in JSON or HTML. Included in the report is a reference doc that explains the importance of the audit and how to fix the problem areas, which you can use to improve the web app or web page. Lighthouse can be integrated directly into the Chrome DevTools with its own panel. To run it, you would simply have to select the Lighthouse panel and click on "Generate report". It can also be run from the command line, or as a Node module. -
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IIPImage
IIPImage is an advanced high-performance image server and client
IIPImage is a high performance image server and client for viewing, navigating and zooming within high resolution images on the internet. Images in TIFF or JPEG2000 format are efficiently streamed by the server to a choice of clients that can be embedded within a web page. -
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Apache Guacamole
HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser. -
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gRPC
High performance, open source universal RPC framework
gRPC is a C-based high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It efficiently connects services in and across data centers with plenty of support, and can also connect mobile devices and browser clients to backend services. Essentially, it makes it easier for you to create distributed applications and services. -
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Java JWT
Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT)
A Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT) - RFC 7519. This library requires Java 8 or higher. The last version that supported Java 7 was 3.11.0. The library implements JWT Verification and Signing using several algorithms. The Algorithm defines how a token is signed and verified. It can be instantiated with the raw value of the secret in the case of HMAC algorithms, or the key pairs or KeyProvider in the case of RSA and ECDSA algorithms. Once created, the instance is reusable for token signing and verification operations. When using RSA or ECDSA algorithms and you just need to sign JWTs you can avoid specifying a Public Key by passing a null value. The same can be done with the Private Key when you just need to verify JWTs. -
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Bedrock
WordPress boilerplate with modern development tools
WordPress boilerplate with modern development tools, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure. Bedrock is an open source project and completely free to use. Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure. Much of the philosophy behind Bedrock is inspired by the Twelve-Factor App methodology including the WordPress specific version. Bedrock is multisite network compatible, but needs the roots/multisite-url-fixer mu-plugin on subdomain installs to make sure admin URLs function properly. This plugin is not needed on subdirectory installs but will work well with them. Composer is used to manage dependencies. Bedrock considers any 3rd party library as a dependency including WordPress itself and any plugins. -
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CloudServer
Zenko CloudServer open-source Node.js implementation of S3 protocol
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google. -
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Tabulator
Interactive tables and data grids for JavaScript
Tabulator allows you to create interactive tables in seconds from any HTML Table, Javascript Array or JSON formatted data. Simply include the library and the css in your project and you're away! Tabulator has an enormous number of features to help customize your table experience to your needs. With new features released every month, there is bound to be something to get your interactive table juices flowing. Tabulator is built to work with all the major front-end JavaScript frameworks including React, Angular and Vue. Header filters and programmatic filters can be set independently allowing you to use a header filter to further restrict the rows shown in an already filtered data set. If an input element is used as the filter element, the table will be filtered in real-time as the user types in the input element. To prevent excessive redrawing of the table Tabulator will wait 300 milliseconds after the user has finished typing before triggering the filter. -
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twemproxy
A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis
twemproxy (pronounced "two-em-proxy"), aka nutcracker is a fast and lightweight proxy for memcached and redis protocol. It was built primarily to reduce the number of connections to the caching servers on the backend. This, together with protocol pipelining and sharding enables you to horizontally scale your distributed caching architecture. Fast and lightweight. Maintains persistent server connections. Keeps connection count on the backend caching servers low. Enables pipelining of requests and responses. Supports proxying to multiple servers. Supports multiple server pools simultaneously. Shard data automatically across multiple servers. Implements the complete memcached ascii and redis protocol. Easy configuration of server pools through a YAML file. Supports multiple hashing modes including consistent hashing and distribution. Can be configured to disable nodes on failures. -
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PyXB (“pixbee”) is a pure Python package that generates Python source code for classes that correspond to data structures defined by XMLSchema. In concept it is similar to JAXB for Java and CodeSynthesis XSD for C++.
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Podcast Generator
Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution
Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store. -
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Jupyter Enterprise Gateway
Enables Jupyter Notebooks to share resources across clusters
Jupyter Enterprise Gateway is a headless web server with a pluggable framework for anyone supporting multiple notebook users in a managed-cluster environment. Some of the core functionality it provides is better optimization of compute resources, improved multi-user support, and more granular security for your Jupyter notebook environment - making it suitable for enterprise, scientific, and academic implementations. From a technical perspective, Jupyter Enterprise Gateway is a web server that enables the ability to launch kernels on behalf of remote notebooks. This leads to better resource management, as the web server is no longer the single location for kernel activity. It essentially exposes a Kernel as a Service model. By default, the Jupyter framework runs kernels locally - potentially exhausting the server of resources. By leveraging the functionality of the underlying resource management applications like Hadoop YARN, Kubernetes, and others. -
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LANraragi
Web application for archival and reading of manga/doujinshi
LANraragi is a web application for archiving and reading manga/doujinshi. Lightweight and Docker-ready, it's designed for NAS and server environments, providing a user-friendly interface for managing comic collections. -
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SWC
Rust-based platform for the Web
SWC is an extensible Rust-based platform for the next generation of fast developer tools. It's used by tools like Next.js, Parcel, and Deno, as well as companies like Vercel, ByteDance, Tencent, Shopify, and more. SWC can be used for both compilation and bundling. For compilation, it takes JavaScript / TypeScript files using modern JavaScript features and outputs valid code that is supported by all major browsers. SWC is 20x faster than Babel on a single thread and 70x faster on four cores. SWC can be downloaded and used as a pre-built binary, or built from the source. SWC (stands for Speedy Web Compiler) is a super-fast TypeScript / JavaScript compiler written in Rust. It's a library for Rust and JavaScript at the same time. If you are using SWC from Rust, see rustdoc and for most users, your entry point for using the library will be parser. If you are using SWC from JavaScript, please refer to the docs on the website.
Open Source Protocols Guide
Open source protocols are the building blocks of modern digital products. They represent a new paradigm in which developers freely share their ideas, code, and resources to promote innovation and collaboration. Open source technology is becoming increasingly popular due to its advantages over proprietary software, including cost savings, customization, and openness.
Open source protocols allow for the independent development of software programs by individuals or organizations without the need to license or purchase expensive software licenses or purchase intellectual property rights from others. This means anyone can develop applications using open source technologies without legal obligations or restrictions on their use. Additionally, open source licenses often provide access to community-developed modifications, bug fixes, updates, and security patches that may be unavailable in more rigidly licensed programs.
Though open source protocols are available for free download online, there are also platforms such as GitHub where developers can find existing versions of popular open-source applications as well as collaborate with other users who have created similar projects. Such platforms not only offer a great place for experts to share their knowledge but also make the process of developing new applications significantly easier overall.
What makes an application “open-source” is its licensing agreement rules known as Free Software Foundation (FSF) guidelines which stipulate how an app's code should be licensed meaning that any modification made by you must remain available under your own license so that others can benefit from it too - basically ensuring freedom/sharing/collaboration within technology development industry while respecting copyright laws simultaneously.
In conclusion open source and protocols are immensely valuable since they let us create secure applications quickly while saving money at same time – all with greater accessibility than before plus ability share knowledge between coders out there too thus democratizing tech industry even further.
Open Source Protocols Features
Open source protocols provide a wide range of features that can be used to create distributed applications, increase interoperability between different components, and improve security.
- Interoperability: Open source protocols promote interoperability by allowing applications from different vendors to interact with each other seamlessly. This enables users to access information more quickly and share it with others in the most efficient way possible.
- Scalability: By using open source protocols, developers can easily scale their application. This allows applications to accommodate a large number of users without sacrificing performance or reliability.
- Security: Open source protocols offer improved security by providing strong encryption algorithms that are regularly updated in order to protect users’ data from malicious attacks or unauthorized access. They also use authentication measures such as digital signatures so that messages cannot be modified without detection.
- Cost Savings: Because open source technologies are available for free (or at very low cost), businesses can save money on development costs while still being able to benefit from the latest technical innovations. Additionally, they have fewer licensing restrictions than proprietary software products, which makes them easier and faster to deploy into production environments.
- Support Network: The success of open source technology is due in part to its dedicated community of developers who support each other through forums, mailing lists, and IRC channels where they exchange ideas about how best to use these tools for various projects.
Types of Open Source Protocols
- HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) – This is the most commonly used transfer protocol and it allows for communication between web servers and clients. It enables users to request files from a server, such as text documents, images, audio files and more.
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol) – FTP is an application layer internet protocol that allows users to transfer large amounts of data over the internet quickly. It can be used to upload or download files securely between two computers on different networks.
- SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/ Transport Layer Security) – These are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications over computer networks by authenticating the server-client connection and providing encryption of data in transit.
- SSH (Secure Shell) - This protocol provides secure access to remote systems through encryption of data exchanged between the client and server machines. It is often used for secure file transfers or even remote system administration of Linux-based systems.
- SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) – SMTP is an application layer internet protocol that provides a method for sending emails from one server to another. It uses port 25 which works with both TCP IP and UDP IP protocols.
- IMAP/POP3 (Internet Message Access Protocol/Post Office Protocol 3) - These are application layer internet protocols specifically designed for retrieving email messages from mail servers within client applications like Outlook, Thunderbird, etc., allowing users to access their emails without having to view them online on the terminal window directly on a mail server machine.
Advantages of Open Source Protocols
Open source protocols provide numerous benefits for users, as outlined below:
- Cost Efficiency: Utilizing open source protocols can be much more cost-effective than investing in proprietary software or services. Since the source code is freely available, users can modify and replicate it without having to pay expensive licensing fees.
- Accessibility: Open source protocols are widely accessible since they are developed through collaboration between multiple individuals and organizations. This makes it easier for people to access these resources anywhere in the world.
- Interoperability: Open source protocols make it easy to share information across different systems since they are designed with compatibility in mind. This allows users to work with data across platforms such as mobile devices, computers, and the web.
- Flexibility: With open source protocols, users have full control over how their projects are created and managed. They can customize features to suit their individual needs or even create new tools from scratch if necessary.
- Security & reliability: Open source software is constantly being scrutinized by developers all over the world so any security vulnerabilities or bugs can be quickly identified and fixed before malicious actors take advantage of them. Furthermore, many of these projects undergo rigorous testing processes which ensures that they remain reliable throughout their lifetime.
Who Uses Open Source Protocols?
- Hobbyists: People who are passionate about open source software, which is free and can be modified and redistributed by developers.
- Businesses: Companies who use open source to reduce operational costs and increase agility in their operations. They also benefit from the vast development community that works on open source projects.
- Academic Researchers: Universities and research centers that employ open source protocols for data collection, analysis, visualization, and many other applications.
- Government Organizations: Federal agencies and departments taking advantage of open source technologies to help manage public services while increasing transparency.
- Educational Institutions: Schools that use open source software to teach students how to code, innovate, collaborate and develop problem-solving skills.
- Nonprofits & Charities: Organizations using open-source tools for fundraising campaigns, volunteer management systems, communication platforms etc., allowing them to maximize donations with minimal overhead costs.
- Users with Disabilities & Special Needs: People who require assistance in order to interact with computers or access the internet can have their needs met more easily with the help of specialized hardware/software available in an OS format.
- Independent Developers & Software Engineers:Professionals who design various applications such as mobile games or productivity apps based on a specific operating system platform but make it accessible via all popular OSs through a single development language (usually Java or C++).
How Much Do Open Source Protocols Cost?
Open source protocols typically cost nothing to use. This is because they are freely available for anyone to access and use without asking for permission or paying any kind of fees. Open source protocols are developed by individuals, communities, or organizations who donate their time and expertise to make them available at no cost. The intention is that anyone can benefit from the knowledge gained through these projects, which is why many open source supporters advocate for greater usage of such technologies.
The major benefit of using open source protocols over proprietary alternatives is the reduced financial overhead; after all, you don’t have to pay licensing fees or royalties when using them. However, keep in mind that there may be other costs associated with using open source protocols depending on your specific needs - such as labour costs related to configuring and managing the technology. Additionally, investing in specialized training or support may be necessary if you find yourself needing additional help along the way.
What Do Open Source Protocols Integrate With?
Open source protocols can be integrated with a variety of software types. This includes operating systems, such as Linux, web browsers like Firefox, networking tools like Wireshark, and multimedia authoring applications like Audacity. Additionally, some popular database management systems like MySQL are open source or offer integration with open protocols. Desktop publishing programs such as Scribus also integrate support for open standards. Finally, development tools such as Eclipse have native support for several open standards which allows developers to quickly start building applications that leverage the power of these standards.
Trends Related to Open Source Protocols
- Open source protocols are becoming increasingly more available and popular. This is due to the fact that they allow users to access and share information without restrictions.
- Open source protocols have gained popularity because they are cost-effective alternatives to proprietary protocols. This means companies can save money when using open source solutions.
- Open source protocols are also becoming more secure, as developers are able to quickly patch any security holes they find in the code.
- Due to their increased popularity, more developers are joining open source communities and contributing to development projects. This leads to more robust and feature-rich products for end users.
- Open source protocols have given rise to a new era of collaboration and creativity, allowing users from all around the world to share their work with each other.
- The adoption of open source protocols has also led to a higher level of standardization across different platforms, making it easier for users to switch between different programs or applications without losing any data or functionality.
Getting Started With Open Source Protocols
Open source protocols are an ideal way to store, share, and access digital information. Getting started with open source protocols is fairly straightforward.
- The first step is to identify your individual needs. Depending on the type of file that you need to store or share, you will need specific software and open source licenses to effectively utilize them. For example, if you want to create/view documents or spreadsheets then you would use OpenOffice’s suite of tools which include a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet application (Calc) as well as applications for presentations (Impress), graphics (Draw), database management systems (Base) etc., all of which are available under an open-source license.
- Next, determine what type of protocol(s) you need for sharing data between yourself and/or other users. HTTPS is used when securely sharing data over the internet whereas FTP can be used for more local transfers such as transferring large amounts of files from one computer to another. SMTP is used for sending emails over the internet while IMAP is used for receiving mail from servers like Gmail or Outlook Exchange Server etc. Selecting the appropriate protocol depends on your needs.
- Once protocols have been chosen, it’s time to download the software associated with those protocols so that they can be implemented correctly on your system(s). Web browsers often come with built-in support for many popular open-source protocols so no further installation may be necessary in some cases. If not already installed however, there are usually freely available versions of these programs online which can be downloaded quickly and easily via a web browser or other means such as through torrent downloads etc.
- Finally, make sure that any required plug-ins have been installed properly so that all components operate together harmoniously within your system environment(s). Plugins are small pieces of code that enable certain features within software programs; without these plugins working correctly many features might not be accessible — this could hamper the overall performance when dealing with larger sized files & protocols over networks etc., therefore it's important to check & double check that all required plugins have been properly downloaded & installed prior to using any software program(s).
By following these basic steps users can get up and running quickly with using open source protocols easily achieve their desired results in a relatively short period of time.
