Re: Newbee on web apps with Delphi

From: Bjørge Sæther (bjorge_at_hahaha_itte.no)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:06:05 +0100

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On 2004-11-04, Bjørge Sæther <bjorge@hahaha_itte.no> wrote:
>>> I need to develop my first web application with delphi for database
>>> management, so I would like to ask you if you know some tutorials,
>>> books or any info to begin with. I would appreciate your help.
>>
>> OK. I'll try to describe what I know about writing such applications:
>>
>> - CGI applications: It's simply an application that receives the
>> request via "stdin" (You normally use Read, ReadLn) and provide
>> output (HTML) vie stdout (Write, WriteLn). Very simple, the only
>> problem being that the application is run once per request, and that
>> isn't exactly ideal for database-based web applications ;-)
>
> Are mod_cgi (previously fast_cgi) dramatically different? I wanted to
> get to the bottom of those, but had to choose Indy httpserver out of
> schedule reasons, and I still don't know this :_)

I didn't know that one ! Seems like what I've been looking for...!
You're right, it seems like a standard CGI application, only that it does
its read/write operations in a loop.
Thanks for the tip ! 

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Regards,
Bjørge Sæther
bjorge@haha_itte.no
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until armed forces are out of Iraq.

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