WWW Servers and Informix DB's
(Message inbox:70) Return-Path: jbluming Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> Received: by Xenon.Stanford.EDU (5.61+IDA/25-CS-eef) id AA20778; Wed, 1 Jun 94 11:12:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 11:12:47 -0700 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Full-Name: Mail Delivery Subsystem Message-Id: <9406011812.AA20778@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown To: jbluming@CS.Stanford.EDU ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 joe@a.site.name (Default Trumpet User)... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by Xenon.Stanford.EDU (5.61+IDA/25-CS-eef) id AA20726; Wed, 1 Jun 94 11:12:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 11:12:47 -0700 From: Jason Bennett Bluming <jbluming@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Full-Name: Jason Bennett Bluming Message-Id: <9406011812.AA20726@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> To: joe@a.site.name (Default Trumpet User) Subject: Re: Anybody wrote a WWW <---> informix gateway program or script? |> I am presently running a WWW server, and would like my WWW |> server to have access to my informix dbase. Thus, I have been writing |> a gateway program(WWW<-->informix) and will be getting into ESQL- |> C soon. Is there anybody doing this too? Yes. I've done this. There are a great number of issues w/r/t how much access you want to give people to your database (since traditional web servers have a very limited concept of identity--given the stateless protocol--and the coarseness of web access control). To avoid many of these issues and handle the uses I required, the implementation being used esql/c functions accessed through CGI scripts to manipulate the database accesses w/o allowing arbitraty db views (since the web server has a single UID). To avoid cluttering the list with web-specific postings, anyone interested can contact me directly (I'd recommend the address in the sig, I uses this one only for news). -Jason ============================================================= Jason Bluming Enterprise Integration Technologies jbluming@eit.com (415) 617 - 8018 (office) | 459 Hamilton Avenue 617 - 8019 (fax) | Palo Alto, CA 94301 =============================================================