Re: [MacPerl] WebStar Server Plug-ins??

[Stephan Somogyi <somogyi@digmedia.com>]

At 8:56 -0500 22.7.96, Richard Rathe wrote:

> Apparently WebStar is about to replace CGI with so called "server
> plug-ins," which are "better/faster/easier" than external CGI programs.
> How will this affect all of us working in MacPerl?

WebSTAR 1.3 and later support plug-ins using the new WSAPI that are
indeed faster than "conventional" AppleEvent-based CGIs, but existing
CGIs are definitely not obsoleted by this and will continue to work.

I suppose it would be possible for someone to write WSAPI glue for
MacPerl (similar in spirit to the BBEdit Extension glue), but as such a
plug-in would have to use AppleEvents to move data back and forth
between it and MacPerl anyway, most (if not all) of the performance
benefit of WSAPI would be lost.

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