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16 years ago

Sending requests to BOA while CGI is running...

Hi all, My problem is very simple : After choosing some parameters in a classic HTML page, a CGI script is launched (according to the user parameters) but the program inside the cgi is ver...
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16 years ago

I know that the way apache accesses cgi programs in case that they are already running and how it starts such programs is a "standard". It defines how to do this via TCP/IP and via pipe. (I forgot the name of the standard.) Moreover I know at least one "gateway" cgi program (done in Pascal), that can be called in the normal CGI way and converts the call according to that standard.

So I suppose adhering to this standard access method is a good idea.

Let me know how you proceed.

-Michael