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

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> > With AWS as Server
> 
> AWS did come into my mind certainly. In that scenario, it would be possible
> to compile the web page generator procedure right into the web server
> (rather than have it run as a separate CGI program). This could be the
> ultimate 'power solution' in some cases. (Hehe ;-)

Well AWS has alread it's templates engine. Please have a look. One important
point is that your template file must be compatible with the design tools
like DreamWeaver. And a designer is not a programmer, the "tags" or template
commands must be easy to use, scripting language are not in this category.

> > Web Server usage only?
> 
> One of the neat things about CGI programs is that you can easily run them
> 'standalone' to test them. Also, the

But it has many many drawbacks. CGI programs run as differents process, this
is not good for server with a lot of hits. Also there is security issues. I'm
not expert here, but there was many exploit with CGI oriented servers
(replacing CGI with some other programs, CGI were running as root on the early
days, if interpreted - PERL CGI - it was possible to send sequence of code
after a ';' line separator...).

Pascal.

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