Karl Winterling wrote:
I'm a college student in California, so I can't afford a World of Warcraft account. However, I might try to design and "sell" a Racket application to my Co-op. so I'll need to avoid sounding mentally disturbed to the central IT staff.
Be aware that IT staff might be a bit reluctant to deploy traditional CGI applications these days. Traditional CGI invokes an executable on each request, which tends to put unnecessary load on servers, particularly if the application has many users, or if it's public and has search bots crawling it.
The P languages, Perl/Python/PHP, have long since moved to using either modules integrated with the web server, or FCGI/SCGI approaches where you need a separate server running the application anyway.
If FCGI or SCGI are options, then a third option that might be open to you is running a Racket web server on a non-standard port and having IT set up proxying to expose that server through their primary web server. That takes just a few lines of configuration on most major web servers, and it doesn't require any special protocols, libraries, or APIs.
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