mc & cgi: limiting users to one visit

[Chipp Walters]

Merci, Monsieur Sahores,

Couple more questions if you don't mind...

1) Do you know of any current web applications running using MC-cgi?
2) What is "long running process" - is it a compiled MC app which acts as a
server and is already loaded in memory on the server?
3) Can MC run on NT or 2000 as a cgi? If so, do you know where I can find
info on how to set it up? I would like to run it on my laptop for building
web apps, and then port to a Linux server.
4) What do you mean by "use PHP as one of the best MC apps compliant sockets
listener."

and some help if you like:

Chris and I have created a stack called "altSAFileUp Library" which enables
users to upload files via the <form type=file> to a server. If you have an
MC client app and wish to upload a file to a server, you can use this
library to do so. It creates the correct headers for all the form data on a
page, including multiple files, and uploads them in binary mode to the
server. While I've only tested it with the SAFileUp control, it should work
with any other server file upload controls on Mac, PC and Linux. Use it if
you like.

-Chipp


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Subject: Re: mc & cgi: limiting users to one visit


Chipp Walters a écrit :
>
> Andu,
>
> Quick question. Have you done any speed/load tests using MC-cgi vs PHP or
> ASP? Can one consider MC-cgi a robust, web-application development tool
like
> ASP and PHP? I know it doesn't do inline scripting like ASP and PHP, but I
> was wondering if I could use it on a Windows System for building small web
> apps.
>
> thx,
>
> Chipp Walters
>
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Hi Chipp,

MC is a perfect tool to build web applications and to link flat-files
and sql-based databases to the internet (My prefered tools : PostGreSQL
as the db, SQLBoss 1.1 as the db designing ide, PHP4 as the gateway
between the MC "POST" queries and the PostGreSQL replies). I'm using MC
(2.32 for yet) in this way since about the last tree years. I'm spending
some time to build an example stack but it's not out for yet. In between
the far "marketed dead" ColdFusion and the J2EE based web apps servers,
MC is, at least, a "must know how to do with it" web development tool.

About speed : using, last year, the same PII 300 laptop to run the same
end-user app under WinNT4 SP5 and Suse-Linux 6.x, i founded that the
ASP2 drived app was 4 times many slower on the NT platform than the PHP
3.0.16 same drived app on the Suse platform. The MC 2.32 issue of the
same app is always many faster than the PHP3 issue is, on both the WinNT
and the Suse platform. The difference will grow more and more with the
length of the scripts to run : with small scripts, no big diffrence in
speed between MC and PHP ; with long scripts, MC will be up to 100 times
faster than PHP3 and 75 time faster than PHP4.

You will find in the list archive ways to handle MC based web apps as
long running processes. Don't forget that you can, if needed, use PHP as
one of the best MC apps compliant sockets listener. Have fun.

Regards, Pierre Sahores

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