Hi Thanos, Thank you so much for the speedy reply. I am going to pass this information onto our programmer and he might be back in touch with some questions.
The need for an ASP page is a work around for a problem that we are having with a Miva Script bug. All we really need is to be able to post information from our Miva script program to some intermediary page that can correctly format our data that will then get posted to the site that is having the problem receiving the Miva directly. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill! We have successfully demonstrated that this workaround will work, but the intermediary page is on a different (windows asp.net) server. So, we now need to get a similar solution working on the originating server. We have thought about Perl and php, but have been wanting to do more with asp so it seemed like a good time to look into chilisoft (or whatever the latest name is). Then I came upon the Apache::ASP and thought that might do the trick. It sounds like now, for my immediate needs Perl might be the way to go, but it sounds like I will need: > the standard LWP::UserAgent and/or HTTP::Request modules Do I understand that correctly? I am open to other ideas as well. TIA, Robin > -----Original Message----- > From: Thanos Chatziathanassiou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Very Basic Newbie Questions > > Hello Robin, > > I'm afraid Apache::ASP won't work for you (at least, not like > you expect it to). > You see, your example here is VBScript and Apache::ASP only > works with PerlScript - that's what it's called on the > IIS/Windows world. > Of course, if > a) Your apache was running on Windows (personally I think > apache-1.3.x on Windows is a Bad Idea for production). > -> Then you could create a ``WinHttp'' object using Win32::OLE > b) You're prepared to write Perl (platform does not concern > us in this case) > -> You could achieve similar (or even better!) functionality using the > standard LWP::UserAgent and/or HTTP::Request modules. > > As far as the second question is converned: > If indeed apache and mod_perl are set-up, then it should be just a > trivial matter of : > perl -MCPAN -e'install Apache::ASP' > input in your shell and then modifying your httpd.conf to > activate the > new functionality. > > Regards, > Thanos Chatziathanassiou > > Robin McDermott wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I am really at the baby step level regarding servers, > apache, etc. However, > >I have the need to be able to run ASP pages on our > linux/apache server so I > >am considering the Apache::ASP. Since our server is running > some critical > >applications, I really need to know what types of problems I > can run into > >installing and using Apache::ASP. But, before I get into > those questions, I > >should confirm that I will be able to do what I need to do first. > > > >First Question: > > > >We need to be able to do an http post from a .asp page to > another server. > >My programmer has asked me to confirm that we can run the > following line > >(obviously in addition to other lines of code as well, but > this is the one > >he is most concerned with): > > > >Set objWinHttp = Server.CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5") > > > >More Questions: > > > >I have a dedicated Linux/Apache server through > Interland/Dialtone. The > >server was just set up this past summer so I assume it has > fairly recent > >versions of Linux, Apache, Mod_Perl etc. > > > >What exactly does it take to install this Apache::ASP > software onto that > >box? Like.is it pretty simple or is this something that I > should be hiring > >someone to do for me given my extreme inexperience. If I > should not be > >messing with it and someone out there is interested in > helping me, e-mail me > >off-list and let me know what you would charge for this. > > > >What are the possible ramifications of this installation? > In other words, > >what kinds of problems can I anticipate? What should I do > to prepare for > >the installation? > > > >I appreciate any help or tips anyone can provide. > > > >TIA, > >Robin > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
