Some bright spark (me) just remembered we have a Citrix Portal that uses a Javaclient and needs nothing installed on the client machine (other than what it itself installs). we use it for others stuff, so it might be OK for this too.
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Corey Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:08:52 +1200 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Some Ideas? > vss wrote: > > > Hi All. > <snip> > > Can anyone else suggest another alternative? other than Soap etc. as > we > > cant really open ports up as the info is VERY sensitive. > > oh PS. the XML is also encrypted before it goes and decrypted on the > > client..BTW > > There are a number of middle-ware possibilities, but I think the option > using the webserver is a good one. However, it's probably a good idea > to just use a CGI rather than messing with COM. > > Write a little program to dump the requested data to a stream in any > format you like - coded XML, proprietary binary format, whatever - then > write it out to the console with the appropriate HTTP content headers. > > I've written WinCGI programs that send on-the-fly JPG images this way, > and it works nicely. As an added bonus, you can shift the whole > shooting match to Kylix if you feel the need, without having to worry > about the fact that COM is a MicroSoft-specific paradigm. > > -- > Corey Murtagh > The Electric Monk > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
