mchttpd Question

[andu]

--On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 3:38 PM -0400 Rich Mooney 
<tech at paynesparkman.com> wrote:

> Because I got the impression that mchttpd could treat a MetaCard stack as
> a CGI if it's placed in the stacks-bin folder thereby eliminating the

>From what I remember yes and no.  I'd have to check the script but writing 
cgi scripts is pretty much the same as any scripts, debugging is more 
painful but if you do the script as a stack and use MC's debugger you can 
just copy/paste it in the text file and modify it to fit the format, really.

> need to actually write a CGI script.  Basically, I would like to make my
> software browser compatible without rewriting it from scratch.  That
> would be a hugely daunting task especially since I am not very
> knowledgeable about web development.  Is my understanding incorrect?  Do
> you have any suggestions for how to approach my problem?
>
> Rich Mooney
> Payne Sparkman Mfg.
> shop at paynesparkman.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andu" <undo at cloud9.net>
> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: mchttpd Question
>
>
>>
>>
>> --On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 2:00 PM -0400 Rich Mooney
>> <tech at paynesparkman.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I would be very interested in any new revisions to mchttpd.  I'm hoping
> to
>> > use it to treat my current control software as a CGI then make my
> systems
>> > operable through a browser.  This is really a long-term plan which I
>> > had shelved because it didn't appear that anyone was doing any
>> > development
> on
>> > mchttpd.  Anyone else interested in further development of mchttpd?
>>
>> Any particular reason for using a metacard web server as opposed to any
>> other web server?
>
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Regards, Andu Novac