Re: Apache no more: Metacard server and and Metacard CGI's?

[Scott Raney]

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Andu wrote:

> > Also if Mac's won't run .mt
> >scripts the same way as Unix, and following on from Scott's comments on
> >Windows NT servers, wouldn't it be good to implement CGI's in a platform
> >independent way?
> 
> Who stops you? You just have to build the server to do scripts instead of
> executing a file. That means the client has to send to the server the name
> of a handler instead of of a file in which case you have(in a generic way):
> 
>   get itemOffset(handlerName,listOfAvailableHandlers)
>   if it is not 0 then
>     handlerName
>     write the_result_from_handler to socket X
> 
> and it's probably faster too.

*Much* faster.  And much easier to debug too.
  Scott

> Regards, Andu
> 
> 

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