Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-10 Thread Kat
Lasso might work for the middleware, as opposed to Applescript. WebStar is more of a web server application -- an Apache type of thing -- while Lasso is true middleware for connecting a database to the Webpage, or generating dynamic web pages. It's more analogous to ColdFusion (which also

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/5/05 11:01 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Jacque, do you remember any MacOS Classic webserver that is able to run Rev CGIs? I am trying to remember here but nothing comes to mind The only thing I remember is that you can glue WebServer + Applescript middleware + Revolution app. Right,

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 6/5/05 11:01 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Jacque, do you remember any MacOS Classic webserver that is able to run Rev CGIs? I am trying to remember here but nothing comes to mind The only thing I remember is that you can glue WebServer + Applescript middleware + Revolution app. Right,

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: I have a client still running a Rev-based CGI (with Valentina as database) behind MacHTTP under OS9 and works just dandy, serving some 1500 users. AppleEvents (not AppleScript) are used for inter-program communication. Such a setup will

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Dan Shafer
My guess is you could be thinking of WebStar (http://www.4d.com/ products/webstar.html). Dan On Jun 5, 2005, at 4:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/5/05 11:01 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Jacque, do you remember any MacOS Classic webserver that is able to run Rev CGIs? I am trying to

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: I have a client still running a Rev-based CGI (with Valentina as database) behind MacHTTP under OS9 and works just dandy, serving some 1500 users. AppleEvents (not AppleScript) are used for inter-program communication. Such a setup will

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: Yes, all you need is an appleevent handler that checks for web event and replies to it by sending html page. My old starter.cgi is still online for those who wants to get rolling faster. This solution is particularly easy to implement for

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/5/05 7:34 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: My guess is you could be thinking of WebStar (http://www.4d.com/ products/webstar.html). Right. It had been so long I couldn't remember the name. And per Robert's note, I did mean AppleEvents, not AppleScript. Blech, I should give up tonight. ;) Dan

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: Yes, all you need is an appleevent handler that checks for web event and replies to it by sending html page. My old starter.cgi is still online for those who wants to get rolling faster. This solution is particularly easy to implement for

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
Andre, I don't really know if people need this any more as I suspect that most have moved on to the UNIX way of doing things but it is very cool. If you do implement it then I suspect a number of people would find it interesting. Bill Vlahos On Jun 5, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Thomas McCarthy wrote: I've got an old beige 233 mac. I've got a fiber optic connection (which I pay for off or on!) I've got a bunch of stacks I want to share with other Latin teachers... Wouldn't it be very possible to clean up the old beige, make a massive

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you are looking to put the actual stacks on the web, this won't do it. As another thread is discussing, there is no way to run a stack in a browser. CGIs return HTML pages, not stacks. A Rev CGI can open and read a stack to get data out

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
Ah. But you forget MacHTTP (http://www.machttp.org/) which is the original web server. At one time it was the most popular web server on the planet. MacHTTP is still available and works very well. However, Andre's got a pretty neat idea here (http://homepage.mac.com/soapdog/rev/revhttpd.html)

Re: running rev cgi on Mac OS 8.6 Personal web server?

2005-06-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jun 5, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Ah. But you forget MacHTTP (http://www.machttp.org/) which is the original web server. At one time it was the most popular web server on the planet. MacHTTP is still available and works very well. However, Andre's got a pretty neat idea here