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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: CGI in Ada?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:23:56 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Did anyone realistically practised CGI in Ada?

Yes

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

There are quite a few libraries for GCI in Ada them and GNAT even got an 
integrated version. AFAIK the best GCI library  is the one in AdaCL [1].

Martin

[1] http://adacl.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/CommonGatewayInterface