From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 15:59:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F375737B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAF043FE3 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp07.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HHF001UT6IZDX@smtp07.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:59:24 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h62MxN4r057447;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h62MxNhp057446; Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:59:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:59:23 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20030702211401.45135.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> To: sanketh sangam Message-id: <20030702225923.GA57410@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <20030702210018.GA55984@dds.nl> <20030702211401.45135.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which server-side programming should i choose. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:59:26 -0000 On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:14:01PM -0700, sanketh sangam wrote: > Hey Alex, > Thanks for your response. The advance HTTP > authentication is called DIGEST Authentication. Yes that the one. > Now about PHP and JSP, as for now i am starting out > with a small application. So, i guess i can go for > PHP. But later if the project gets larger can i > migrate from PHP to JSP, I mean can it be accomplished > easily. Its an entairly different programming language. Every php page have to be rewritten. So no, not realy. If i whould be plaing on something big, i would start with JSP evendou the project wasn't big jet. > Do u know about "mod_auth_mysql" along with > ".htaccess" (they are provided my apache). It seems > that module can be used for user authentication. I have no experience with that port, but i beleave it to allow acces to certain directory and getting the information from a database. Wether or not to use it proberbly depend on you detailed plans. I don't think i can help you with it. > I am > not sure if that module is running on my system. Do u > know how i can find out if that module has been > installed on my system or not. pkg_info wil list it if its on you system. But that's another discussion and thus doesn't realy belong in this mail. > Thank you very much for your time. > -Babu I feel the following things are helpfull sending to these list: 1. Do send mail like this with a cc to the orginal list. Others can learn from our exange of information. 2. Don't top-post. This makes it hard for other to read it. 3. Cut you text. Text that has no more relevancy only confueses people.