Re: [MacPerl] RFC: Suitability of MacPerl as a CGI language

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 10:13 AM -0600 6/18/98, David Steffen wrote:

}
}     ii) Development of an alternative to using the cgi glue.  I am
}     thinking of an AppleScript that accepts all cgi requests and does
}     the above.  I have played around with this a little bit, and it
}     seems like it could work.  It would by necessity be more manual and
}     uglier in setting up a cgi, but I think it could be made transparent
}     to the user.
}
} What do y'all think?

That you shouldn't use AppleScript for this, because it AFAIK suffers from
the problem as MacPerl, the inability to run more than one CGI at the same
time.  At the moment Frontier is the appropriate MacOS tool, since it is
threaded.  The Web site orientedness of Frontier is a likely a plus in this
situation, too.

The alternative is not to run MacOS at all, but to use a buzzword compliant
OS that runs on Mac hardware, like Linux or Open/FreeBSD (on which you can
run Apache) or BeOS (I've no idea what the HTTP server/Perl situtation is
there).

}
} -David-
}
} David Steffen, Ph.D.
} President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
} Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com



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