[MacPerl] Client CGI vs Server CGI

["Emmanuel. M. Decarie" <emm@CAM.ORG>]

I don't know if I'm mislead about the nature of CGIs , but I tend to be more confident in a solution that will involve the server (with a Perl or a Frontier script) than a solution that will involve a client CGI (a JavaScript or/and a Java applet solution executed by the browser). 

I was thinking mostly of CGIs that involve forms, retrieving information in a "flat" database, sending mail...

I know that Perl can trigger a JavaScript, and I'm sure that Frontier can do the same.

What the people think about this. Am I'm wrong to think that beside CGIs that involve the browser GUI (opening new windows...), its better to use a server architecture than a client architecture to execute CGIs ? And what about the speed of deployment when you compare writing a Perl/Frontier script and a Java applet (I don't know Java, but I'd like to hear about this too).

PS: Sorry it this is off-topic.

Cheers

-Emmanuel
 
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