Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk>]

"Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message
news:PEednfVB_pKyXR2iU-KYgg@gbronline.com...

> I'm not sure I understand.  Are you saying
> that some variant of Ada would be embedded
> in a web page, then the browser would send it
> back to the server it came from to be compiled
> into a CGI program and executed?

I was describing an authoring process, not a browsing process. What I was
suggesting was that the author of a web page would: write/edit the text file
containing mixed HTML and Ada code; upload it to the web hosting server
machine; run the translator to convert the mixed HTML and Ada code text file
into a pure Ada program source text file; compile the Ada program (probably
with GNAT) to get a binary executable CGI program; put the CGI program into
the cgi-bin directory.

The corresponding browsing process would be: the user starts at the web site
home page, which will probably be a normal HTML web page; the user follows a
link in this which invokes the CGI program (the URL might be something like
"http://www.mystuff.com/shop/stocklist.cgi?item=23401", where the name of
the CGI program is "stocklist.cgi"); the CGI program is executed by the web
server, and generates a dynamic web page, which it outputs on its standard
output; the web server pipes this back to the client's browser, which
displays it.

Having said all of that, I've now revised my suggestion in line with the AWS
template parser, written by Pascal Obry.

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Nick Roberts
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