Re: CGI in Ada?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Maciej Sobczak a �crit :

> Did anyone realistically practised CGI in Ada?

I did long time ago. There is support for CGI in GNAT (see GNAT.CGI and
children).

> I know about AWS, but let's focus on "regular" web server (say, Apache)
> with CGI in Ada serving dynamic content.

Frankly I won't use CGI at this time. It is slow and stress a lot of the
server (each request is a new process). I think Fast-CGI solved that,
not sure I have never used it. The new Web architecture are servlet, AWS
supports this kind of architecture... and there is so much more support
for Web application I wondering why one would want to avoid it :)

> If yes, are there any reasonable libraries for handling url
> encoding/decoding, html entity escaping, form data retrieval, cookies,
> etc.?
> 
> Technically everything is possible, but I'm curious whether Ada has been
> successfully used in this area.

As I said, it definitely has.

Pascal.

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