Re: Crazy little web project

Larry,

Don't have a testbox to do the fyring?
Let that be your playground.
And what is the difference?
- I have a handmade program sitting on a port to serve webpages.
- I have the webserver sitting on a port to serve webpages.
With the second you can show your 'enquiry screen' in 'a' day.
With the first you spill your time and effort in only proofing
something to your self.

Have fun,
Eduard. 
 
--- Larry <Larry_Ducie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom, Scott,
> 
>  
> 
> <Tom and Scott>
> 
> Why re-invent the wheel
> 
> </Tom and Scott>
> 
>  
> 
> The word "crazy" was in the subject line for a reason chaps. :-)
> 
>  
> 
> Why? The challenge, the deeper understanding of the protocols I'd
> gain, the
> fun I'd have! You see, I'd have to sit down and learn how the whole
> thing
> hangs together (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML or XML, etc.). What better reason
> to do
> it? Consider it an out-of-hours hobby. I just didn't want to build my
> own
> back-yard rocket ship to find out that the engine doesn't fit. ;-) 
> 
>  
> 
> Now the CGIDEV2 stuff looks neat (another little gem). I'd imagine
> that it's
> a good utility - I downloaded the MIME service programs from the same
> site
> and they're great.
> 
>  
> 
> On a more practical note: How do you set up RPG programs as CGI
> programs?
> How are they called from the standard web servers? Do they need to be
> written to use STDIN and STDOUT or can they take parms? I mean, if it
> isn't
> THAT difficult to fire up the HTTP server then I might try and get
> the
> company to buy into the project. However, I'd imagine that I'd have a
> better
> chance of convincing them if I had a working prototype. You know what
> senior
> managers are like - if I gave a demo of the browser-based enquiry
> screens
> they'd wet their pants. They wouldn't care how it was handled. If I
> then
> added "but we'd need to fire up the HTTP server for scalability,
> stability
> and security reasons" they say fine. If I asked them to fire up the
> HTTP
> server so I can have a play they'd probably say "Er. no!". So my
> little
> server may well provide me with enough leverage to get the company to
> buy
> into the idea.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers
> 
>  
> 
> Larry
> 
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