Where can I get the mchttpd server? I did a few searches on the web and
didn't come up with anything useful.
Thanks,
Marni
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Marni Centor
Summit Systems
22 Cortlandt St.
New York, NY 10007
(212) 896-3466
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Raney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 9:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Apache Server and Metacard CGI's
>
>
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Marni Centor wrote:
>
> > How specific is everything in this discussion to Apache
> server & Linux? Can
> > it be applied to FrontPage server and NT? (OK, I hear the
> groans, but I'm
> > hoping to set this up internally on our intranet, and
> FrontPage is what
> > we've got.)
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't apply at all. Nor does it apply to CGI on
> the Mac. The three OSs use totally different architectures for this.
> Worse on Windows is that there are (at least) two incompatible APIs
> for doing CGI (NSAPI and ISAPI).
>
> > I followed all the instructions as best I could apply them to
> > our internal setup, using a personal FrontPage web for
> testing purposes, and
> > so far the best I've been able to get is to have the text
> of the echo.mt
> > script appear in my browser when I click the Submit button
> on my html page.
> > Any advice or suggestions of where else to look for more guidance?
>
> Sorry, you're up a creek without a paddle on this one. You can use
> MetaCard to write CGIs using built-in features on UNIX and MacOS
> systems, but we have no plans to support NSAPI or ISAPI in the near
> term. Your best option if you must use Windows is to use the mchttpd
> server, which is the same on all platforms, and which you can easily
> extend to do CGI all in the same MetaCard process (much more efficient
> than any of the other APIs, and immensly easier to develop and debug
> with). mchttpd doesn't do everything yet, but it'll get there
> eventually. You can help by using it, reporting (and maybe even
> fixing) problems, and requesting (and maybe even implementing) new
> features. Note that you don't have to dump your existing HTTP server,
> you can run them together by just assigning a different port to the
> mchttpd server.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> > Thanks,
> > Marni
> >
> > --
> > Marni Centor
> > Summit Systems
> > 22 Cortlandt St.
> > New York, NY 10007
> > (212) 896-3466
>
> ********************************************************
> Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
> MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
>
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