Re: Fast Track towards using an existing application on the Internet

"Tariq" <tariq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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After studying a little more on this issue, I have come to the
conclusion that I have to write the client end from scratch. I have
short-listed to approaches: ASP and SOAP.

My preliminary understanding is that in ASP only an HTML page travels
from server to client and gets displayed inside the web browser. While
in SOAP, the client application is a Win32 application and web browser
is not needed. The requested information is sent by the server to
client and then the client application is responsible to display/handle
it.

If my basic understanding of this approach is wrong then I would
appreciate if someone can correct it. Before I invest time in it, I
would like to get my concept clear about it.

I use ASP and it is as you describe it. The application receives the html
response messages, which you can handle as events. You output a full html
page as a string. I program these strings by hand - having only half a dozen
responses - but I guess there are tools to simplify this. (Usually I set the
page up with FrontPage and then change it into a Delphi string expression.)
There is a special Delphi facility for testing (but live testing may still
be a problem if your server address is on a LAN). The advantage of ASP is
that the client doesn't need to install or configure anything. Changes in
the app remain under your complete control.


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