I vote for more details on your simple web server in SwiftForth. It
would be an interesting example, if nothing else.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Rick VanNorman [SMTP:rick_at_neverslow.com]
        Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:10 AM
        To: sftalk_at_forth.com
        Subject: [sftalk] Re: Forth server

        The issues, in no particular order, are:

        1. Forth, in general, can be used as a CGI scripting language.
        All it needs is to be able to read/write stdio. To use Forth
        as a CGI language requires nothing more than
        having a web server on the same computer as a version of Forth
        that you want to use. For SwiftForth, that computer would have
        to be a PC running Windows. There are many webservers for
        the PC/Windows.

        2. To actually use Forth for an embedded scripting language
        like PHP would require integration of the Forth into the actual
        web server itself. There is a mechanism for this, but it doesn't
        work very well on the Windows web servers; works really well on
        *nix web servers, but I don't know the mechanism.

        3. I have written a very simple web server in SwiftForth. This
        would be a fun place to play. It would provide, with a little
        more work than I have currently invested, a web server whose
        pages could do server-side scripting in Forth. Might be very
        interesting. But the owner of the system would have to be nuts
        to let Joe Blow put up a web page with a Forth program in it.

        Did I leave anything out?

        Which one is the most interesting?

        Rick

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