- From: Mike Dilworth <applix!uunet!soi.city.ac.uk!mjd@uunet.uu.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:06:13 -0200
- To: Luke Gonze <uunet!applix!luke@uunet.uu.net>, uunet!applix!uunet!w3.org!www-talk@uunet.uu.net
At 06:38 PM 3/16/96 -0500, Luke Gonze wrote: > >Carlos: >>I can connect informix database with web server ? >>we are working development aplication in informix but we don't know >Khow to link informix database with web server .. > >Hi Carlos - > >It depends on your general approach. The most basic way is to compile your >cgi scripts with embedded sql, assuming that you have C programmers who know >that environment. There are also quite a few vendors of web/cgi<-->rdbms >tools and 4GLs. I'd be surprized of none of them read this list and post >info on their products. > >If you really need to link your informix code into the web server itself, you >can either customize a web server using the libwww toolkit or bind your own >code into the netscape server. Writing via the libwww toolkit is a pretty >hairy experience - their code is very difficult to read. The toolkit for >binding code into the netscape server is pretty good. > is all this really necessary ? I use perl myself, not C, and it strikes me that i could just make system calls using sql to the database and then send the output back to the browser via a few line of perl to stick in the html stuff. but maybe i am being a little too simplistic ? mike Michael J. Dilworth Dept. Information Science City University London, UK. http://web.is.city.ac.uk/Home/mjd/Homepage.html
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