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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 95 11:46:38 -0800
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. 
Message-ID:  <199511281946.LAA09621@netcom22.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 95 16:34:41 PST." <853.817518881@time.cdrom.com> 

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> Instead of going for a full httpd and CGI interface, you implement a
> library that allows pretty much any event driven application to "grow
> an HTTP port".  You write your "forms" in a higher level pastiche of
> HTML and some sort of imbeded tags that let you specify which callback
> routines to call when a given HTML object is manipulated in some way.

Bingo!  That is exactly it!

> The viewer would see HTML, your legacy app would see a different sort
> of command interpreter.

Yup!

> Would you be interested in exploring an option like that, as well as
> the option of using existing server technology and CGI?

Sure.  Let us take this offline though.



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