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From: richard at folwell.com (Richard Folwell)
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:01:32 GMT
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Subject: stupid Win-CGI getting started question
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Message-ID: <01BE8851.3B6BED90.richard@folwell.com>
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On 14 April 1999 19:45, bill_seitz at my-dejanews.com
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[SMTP:bill_seitz at my-dejanews.com] wrote:
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> So nobody can run .py files as CGI?
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>
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> Is this a known problem? What's its scope? Only Netscape/NT? What about IIS?
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It was certainly possible to run .py files as CGI under IIS 2. I did not need
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to upgrade that system, so cannot be sure about later versions of IIS, but
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would find it extremely hard to believe that anyone would remove the ability to
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use an abitrary external program to provide a CGI resource to a web server from
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a mainstream web server.
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I do remember seeing a (at least one, maybe more) posting about differences in
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configuring IIS2/3/4 w.r.t. external programs (e.g. stuff which worked fine
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under IIS2/3 stopped working when the server was upgraded to version 4).
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The problem has to be along these lines. The CGI spec (I understand) simply
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requires programs/languages that can handle standard input (stdin) and produce
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standard output (stdout).
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> I'm trying to keep my code generic enough that it can be moved to other
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> platforms/servers down the road (which is why I haven't been looking at nsapy
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> or Medusa or ZopeHTTP...), so I don't want to work around a problem now and
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> just have it hit me again later. I'd like to understand the nature of the
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> problem enough to evaluate alternative solutions.
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I have done some work with ISAPI (the Microsoft equivalent to NSAPY). There
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are performance gains with these approaches, but you definitely lock yourself
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into a single web server supplier (unless someone has come up with a neat way
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of producing cross-platform support for these plug-ins). CGI has the big
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advantage that it is supported by all non-toy web servers, and the actual code
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should not need changing between different web servers.
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Richard
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