RE: Setup Apache/CGIDEV2 vs private RPG based server

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I was anticipating the client side (ie, ASP page scripts) would be the
same
> either way but that I'd just listen and respond to them directly rather
than
> having Apache play the middle man.  

Conceptually the client-side is the same either way, but in
implementation it's not. Do you really mean "classic" .asp pages, or
asp.net pages? In classic asp it's going to be a real pain to do any
low-level socket communications. It's simple enough to pretend to be a
web-browser and request a "page" from a different site, but lower-level
sockets aren't really the kind of thing you do in asp. In asp.net you at
least have a complete programming environment behind you. But still,
it's so trivial to pretend to be a web-browser that implementing the
socket-level api's is much more work. The bottom line is that people
have written client-side helpers for accessing web-servers, there are no
client-side helpers for accessing "doug servers".

-Walden

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