mchttpd Question

[andu]

--On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 2:09 PM -0400 Rich Mooney 
<tech at paynesparkman.com> wrote:

> Here is an old thread which I saved and which may answer some of your
> questions.  I haven't tried to use this information myself yet.
>

Some of the information in one of those posts was somehow inaccurate and/or 
confusing. If all you want is to use Metacard for cgi scripting all you 
have to do is to put your scripts and the engine (named "mc") in your web 
server's /cgi-bin directory.
The script is a text file which looks like:

#!mc
on startUp

#script here

end startUp

...and can be called anything except that some servers prefer a 
"filename.cgi"  name.
You don't need mchttpd for this. That was just a sample for metacard's 
sockets possibilities but a MC web server doesn't excel in any way except 
in web applications situations where the server processes the POST requests 
itself rather then passing them to a separate engine.

Regards, Andu Novac