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Re: CGI and C or C++

Posted by Frank Hale on 1999-06-25

--- Jes Rahbek Klinke <jesk@xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx> wrote:
> >To all you CGI programmers, I have a question.
> >If you can use C or C++ to run CGI applications, is
> it safe to assume that one could write a CGI program
> on a >Windows machine with HTTP server that when
> implemented could telnet to a unix machine, retrieve
> some data, >and then post it on the web server that
> is running on the Windows machine?
> >DarkCrystal

I've done this in Perl with about 15 lines of code
using sockets to recieve data rather than telnet. Perl
is more suited for these types of cgi's rather than
C++ which would probably be orders of magnitude more
complex than Perl.

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From:  Frank Hale
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