Re: Connecting to Informix from the WEB

In article <46igos$jgu@soap.news>, Dean hobbs <deanh@Unipalm.Pipex.Com> wrote: >Is there anybody out there who has connected to an informix database( or >any other database) via the WEB. I have an Informix database that I would >like to access from th internet. > >I would be grateful if anyone could provide me with some information on >how to go about it. Trade journal(s) indicate Netscape will provide the required tools for about $699 on Wintel platforms (Windoze/Intel) and a few hundred more for Unix. This will be very complete, with HTML editing, Java, scripting language, stand-alone Informix SE, and all the goodies for connecting to other RDBMS systems. The Informix web page advertises a couple free add-ons for using ESQL/C and 4GL with the Web via cgi-bin. If Unix, I would just write a cgi-bin to query Informix via db-access script. Cgi-bins can get pretty fancy, especially if you use Expect (free from NIST). Expect lets you automate character-based programs such as db-access, ftp, telnet or whatever *MUCH* better than /bin/sh. If NT, same idea, but the cgi-bin would probably by Visual C++/Basic. -- ============================================================================== Phil Perucci ......... pperucci@access.digex.net ........ Systems Integrator "Visit the Hydrologic Information Center at http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/~hic"; ==============================================================================