[MacPerl] Re: webSTAR and email

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 5:00 -0800 David Doonan wrote:

> 
> If anyone has any experience setting up a webstar server to handle mail
> & cgi's, it would be a great help.
> 
> - --

I run a WebSTAR server and found that the most efficient way to do this is
to use a WebSTAR 'module' and JavaScript. I also have a MacPerl script
(capturing the contents of a form) running on the server (on demand) as a
CGI, but it does not send mail; it appends to a local file (which is then
visible to appropriate users via AppleTalk). In the Apache world, one
'compiles in support for Perl modules' to make the use of perl  driven by
the server as efficient as possible. In WebSTAR, as its manual instructs,
the equivalent is to use its own mechanism (and avoid CGIs). Grab the
source of 

http://fmwww.bc.edu/cef99/forms/registform.js.9325.html

from your browser. It uses the WebSTAR 'quicksend' method to generate mail.

Kit Baum
Boston College Economics






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