- From: Paolo Missier <paolo1@bellcore.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:48:22 -0400 (EDT)
- To: sean@illustra.com (Sean Riley)
- Cc: www-rdb@www10.w3.org, paolo1@bellcore.com (paolo paolo1@bellcore.com)
Hi Sean, it is interesting that you mention perl as a development language for the cgi scripts that connect a Web Client to a DB through a Web server: I started experimenting with that idea (the connection middleware) over one year ago and never used perl... In fact, using a Web server as a gateway is a pure convenience anyway, since you can hack together not only the gateway, but also your own server that only talks that much HTTP that is necessary to understand very specific URLs --those which request data from the database. People who have experimented writing such mini-HHTP servers, for instance in Tcl augmented with sockets, say it is much faster than a Web server. Anyway. What do you mean by "storing HTML pages with embedded SQL" in the DB"? Wlcome to the list, Paolo > I personally am working on the theory that the present wave of perl > interfaces to databases on the Web is something of a phase. It was useful > at first, until the concepts and issues become more clearly defined, but it > will become a prototyping and low-end tool as more heavy duty web interfaces > become available (APIs such as with Netscape & integrated servers such as > Naviserver & Database company specific hooks). > > Wouldn't it be nice to be have the tools to not have to resort to perl - or > even CGI at all... *sigh*. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The opinions expressed are my own and not the opinions of my employer. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sean Riley Phone:(510) 869-6372 > Illustra Information Technologies Email: sean@illustra.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Hookt on foniks werkt fer mee!" > http://www.illustra.com (demos for the masses in "TestFlight") > > -------- Paolo Missier Bell Communication Research, Morristown, NJ +1 (201) 829 4644 -=- paolo1@bellcore.com __-- Time Is Stronger. --__
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