Execution from web-?possible

Marian Petrides mpetrides at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 21 06:07:02 EDT 2004


I asked this question a few days ago but got no answer, so I'm trying 
again:

I would like to be able to get a Rev app to execute from the web.  Is 
this possible? If possible, is it even feasible given web access 
speeds?

I have read the information on go URL and also the How To entitled "How 
to use a stack that's on a web server."  Unfortunately, it appears that 
following the instructions in the "How to..." results in download of 
the stack to the user's machine.

Is there some way to avoid this step and simply get the app to execute 
from the web server?

(Bear with me here... this may be a stupid idea but I've never tried 
it, so I have NO idea if it is possible and, if possible, feasible from 
a speed perspective)


Marian
PS  I found the following among my notes from previous postings to the 
list but the link only shows a static page, non of the hypertext links 
work.  Thus, I'm thinking the stack is not actually functioning:

> Accessing web-based stacks:
>
> I have a stack (remoteStack) located at a URL address, and I have a
> local stack (localStack) on my desktop.  And, I am trying to open
> remoteStack with a button on localStack.  I've tried every
> combination
> of commands I can think of but to no avail.  Would someone
> simply tell
> my the script for doing this?
>
> open stack url <url>
>
> You can test it with one of my web-based stacks that was done with
> MetaCard:
>
>   open stack url "http://www.sonsothunder.com/AboutSTS.mc"
>
> =======
>
> It should be as simple as this:
>
> go stack url "http://www.someserver.com/whatever/filename.rev"
>
> A possible problem is that you didn't load the internnet libraries 
> when you built the standalone. Does it work in the Rev development 
> environment?


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