Probably better to look at something like the Asta IB server software.
www.astatech.com
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2000 16:13
Subject: RE: [DUG]: ActiveX in Web Applications
Potentially if you can access the server name from the client machine, you
could specify a TCP path to the database. I am not sure what port it is
looking for and that either needs to be specified or opened in the firewall
but something along the likes of <server name>:<database path and file
name>. Being able to ping the <server name> from the remote client is a
start. You will also probably need to create a specific account for remote
database access on the server which is able to access that directory. You
will need to configure IIS to do this.
Have fun
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Peacocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 4:05 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: ActiveX in Web Applications
I am building web applications using Delphi CGI. I've now been asked to
include some relative smarts in the data entry screens.
To this end I'm looking at using ActiveX instead of straight Delphi
generated HTML, and an initial play around seems to show promise.
I'm using IBDatabase and IBQuery components and access a database in the
cgi-bin (Delphi 5 Enterprise).
Although this works well in my own test with the IIS on my development
machine, I have currently no way to test this on a far-flung internet
server over the web. (BTW: All users will be known users with specific
password access).
Can anyone who has done this before please let me know if the TIBDatabase
(or TDatabase) is looking at the directory on the server, or the user's own
local directory. The IBDatabase does not seem to like
"http://localhost/blah.." as it's path.
What do I have to do to ensure direct access to the database using ActiveX
in the browser of a user a hundred miles away?
Any other hints, suggestions and watch-out-for's ?
Steve Peacocke
(025) 951-251
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