mc & cgi: externals

[andu]

Yennie at aol.com wrote:
> 
> While on a CGI thread...
> 
> I'm considering trying to move my server app to a script-only implementation.
> However, I have a couple of crucial externals which need to be a part of it.
> Porting these to the operating systems on which I need them is not a problem
> (albeit some work), but I seem to recall that there is no way to use
> externals with CGI scripts. I can imagine good reasons for this, but is there
> any work-around? For example, I'd like to run things as script-only on a
> Darwin system. I can compile mach-o tools, but can I run them from inside a
> MC script? Has anyone been down this road before who can point me in the
> right direction? What if my externals need to maintain static/global
> information? My ultimate goal is an apache/metacard combo with no GUI...
> anyone that can give me some input?

Brian, your best bet for something like this is to have cgi scripts
communicate with a long-running stack which in turn uses the externals,
I think.

> 
> TIA,
> Brian Yennie
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