Re: ANNOUNCE: New free Database to CGI gateway

Posted in 1995

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET

Juergen Teuwen — Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:33:22 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Sounds great. Now if only someone would come up with a similar product that supports WinNT and MS-Access... troy@cbme.unsw.edu.au (Troy Rollo) wrote: >CorVu Pty Ltd has just released dbCGI, a free gateway between databases and >the World Wide Web. >dbCGI comes with support for Informix, Ingres, ODBC, Oracle, Progress and >Sybase. >Inspired by the database gateway work of Decoux. dbCGI takes the raw >concepts of inline SQL markup to a new level to allow you to format the >output of SQL in a highly flexible manner using all the facilities >available in HTML. >Key features include: > * Highly flexible HTML formatting of the output of SQL queries, > which enables you to create both read only and HTML form pages. > * Database independance You can easily develop yourweb page with > one DBMS, and switch to another at a later date. > * Easy to port to a new DBMS - the database specific modules each > take only 250 lines of straight forward code. > * Ability to use HTTP query strings and form input in SQL. > * Security features allowing verification of input. > * Master/detail style output can easily be achieved. > * Support for BLOB data, such as images, sound and video. > * An easy to use syntax which is similar to the syntax of HTML > itself. If you have written an HTML document, you can be > productive with dbCGI within minutes of installation. >dbCGI is currently available from the Progress Web server: > http://www.progress.com/webtools/webtools.htm >dbCGI is an unsupported, free software product of CorVu Pty Ltd. >_____________________________________________________________________________ > Senator Exon will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes >UNSW explicitly disowns my opinions - |<- Guess who'll be second >See: http://www.unsw.edu.au/standards/standard.htm | troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU -- * ***Novacan Information Services*** * *******http://novacan.ns.ca/****** * Juergen Teuwen & Elisabeth Schwarzer * Tel: (902) 889-3086 * Fax: (902) 889-2873 * CIS: 74767,753