Re: My boss needs convincing..

[Thor HW]

Title: re: My boss needs convincing..

And for what the initial email that the above reader responded to, there is no reason in this universe that anyone would want to use cgi instead of JSPs.  CGI is the worst technology that the internet was ever corrupted with.  It's so slow, it's the reason why E-Commerce sites looses a lot of business when customers click on the Submit button and they have to wait an hour before the transaction has completed, so they the users/clients just leave out of impatience. Also cgi is hacker prone.  I read on the Techweb site that a hacker can easily retrieve credit card information and so on on a web site that uses CGI.  Secondly it's so damn slow, thirdly, if you are part of an E-Commerce company or Consulting Firm, then if you tell you clients that you still use CGI, hehe,  then you can kiss them goodbye soon. You can do a cached CGI, which doesn't need to reload and that is the main speed problem.  The PERL folks have shown that a cached set can compete with C-code.   Why would CGI be anymore vulnerable than .asp pages?  You can get to see the source for either one just as easily if the server is not setup correctly, or in the case of asp if the Microsoft patches aren't available to you, on your hw/ national OS resource.   Thor HW