Hi Warren, Thank you. I am obviously out of my league. Just trying to do some preliminary work for our programmer. I am sure he will be able to make sense of this and I do appreciate your clarifying this for me.
Best regards, Robin PS There are tremendous similarities between Yamaha and yellow (both begin with Y, both have 6 letters, the second letter of each is a vowel), Ok I get your point ;-) Thanks again. > -----Original Message----- > From: Warren Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:19 PM > To: Apache-ASP List > Subject: Re: Very Basic Newbie Questions > > Robin McDermott wrote: > > thought about Perl and php, but have been wanting to do > more with asp > > so it > > ASP is just an API, it is not tied to VBScript. If it's > important for you to be able to run the same code on both the > Windows and Linux web servers, you may be able to run > PerlScript ASP pages on the Windows side and Apache::ASP on > the Linux side. > > Thinking about Perl vs. ASP is like thinking about Yamaha vs. yellow. > > > 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? > > Thanos was suggesting that you go ahead and use Apache::ASP, > but within the Perl ASP code on the Linux side you use either > the LWP::UserAgent or HTTP::Request CPAN modules to make the > HTTP connection to your Windows server. This is as opposed > to the VBScript/OLE call you gave in your original post, > which has a similar function. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
