RE: Crazy little web project -- RPG400-L

There's an old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" 
I've always felt that was said by a jacka$$.  
The saying that I like is:
 "If it ain't broke, you ain't looked hard enough!"
What's wrong with the wheel?
Well, there's too much excess rubber, recycling isn't at 100% yet, it goes
flat, even in 2004, and on and on.
Why reinvent it? To solve these and many other problems that are overlooked
simply because we're used to them.
Building a webserver will give whoever does it, the pleasure of learning
more about the way things work in programs such as Apache (for example) than
most of us will learn in our lifetimes out it. Thus that person may choose
to share that knowledge with others; and there's always the possibility that
they could improve existing technology through the discovery process.
I think it's a great idea.
-Bob Cozzi


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Larry
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 2:48 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Crazy little web project

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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