Re: [INTERFACES] compile error

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> 2. Do you know how form parameters are transferred from an page
>    in a browser to a CGI program in general? What the difference
>    is between GET and POST? Why the raw data that is passed needs
>    "parsing"?
>
> 3. Now, do you have a good CGI-data parsing mechanism for C? One
>    that will give you the name-value pairs, and allow you to get
>    multiple values, if there are any? If you don't have a
>    library, or have trouble in using it, you really should choose
>    a different language.


    If you use a library called 'cgic', available at
http://www.boutell.com/cgic/, these two problems will be quickly solved.
:)

> 5. Do you know the problems of CGI and real-world applications? Do you
>    know CGI is stateless? That it means that no information is kept from
>    what the user passed to the CGI? Do you know that you have to take
>    care of it yourself? Maintain some sort of "session" information and
>    have some way of knowing that the client that connects now to the
>    database is the same client that connected to it three minutes ago
>    and started some work? If you want the user to be able to do several
>    consecutive screens, like read-and-update, you have to think about
>    this problem, and find a solution for it. Also think about multi-
>    user scenarios.

    The same, if you are a clever programmer who always initialize the
variables before using them. :)

    done. Aldrin Leal. <aldrin@americasnet.com>