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Comments on using MicroWeb from Indigo Star to run cgi on a CD

by jerrygarciuh (Curate)
on Oct 14, 2001 at 21:35 UTC ( [id://118764]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

jerrygarciuh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

As some may have seen from my previous post, I am working on a project where by I need to enable users to search a small database on CD without installing anything. MicroWeb from Indigo Star Software asserts:"MicroWeb allows you to create a working web site on a CD-ROM. Using a web browser, a user can run cgi programs as well as view html files on the CD-ROM." Has anyone used this? How was the experience?
TIA
jg
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Re: Comments on using MicroWeb from Indigo Star to run cgi on a CD
by neophyte (Curate) on Oct 14, 2001 at 21:44 UTC
    I have used MicroWeb for a similar project and it worked fine for me.
    Mind you, I've not tried to install modules for MicroWeb, so I cannot say anything about installing modules, but I suppose that you can just copy perl-only modules into the appropriate directory and it should work.

    neophyte Niederrhein.pm

Re: Comments on using MicroWeb from Indigo Star to run cgi on a CD
by jerrygarciuh (Curate) on Oct 14, 2001 at 22:14 UTC
    Grrrr! Well, it looks like I'll have to code this in JS and my JS kung fu is not anywhere near my Perl-fu but by all accounts and super search etc. JS looks like the best route to platform independance (I don't code Java at all). Pretty much all of the mini-server software is made for Win32, and I have to have this for Mac and PC (like 20,000 cds going out). If anyone has advice, I'd appreciate it, the JS 'community' is not supportive like Perl's.
    TIA
    jg
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Re: Comments on using MicroWeb from Indigo Star to run cgi on a CD
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2002 at 08:48 UTC
    Well...I tried microweb on three PCs, and I managed to crash two of them with a form sending stuff to a perl script (the demo form of microweb crashes the systems as well). The system that resisted was running WinME, the two that did not had Win98SE. No problems with Apache, though. The product is a great idea but it needs a bugfix before we can distribute apps on CD to people running unknown OS. But if you know a way to solve this problem, please post it here. Gregoire.
      That doesn't particularly mean much. Which version of microweb were you running (that would make it significant information)?

      The product is a great idea but it needs a bugfix before we can distribute apps on CD to people running unknown OS

      That is not the intent of microweb (running on an unknown OS, it runs on any Win32 platform, and yes, I do regret to say I've ran 1.16 successfully on WinME).

      update: I have written a rudimentary web server in java, which I might complete someday(originally for $$ for jerrygarciuh, but after his client changed the specs, I stopped work on it, maybe i'll open source it and put it on javajunkies.org).

      Here's a little quote for you from the Microweb user manual:

      V1.16 Oct 8 2001 Fixed: Data posted from a form to a CGI would sometimes display a blan +k page. Fixed: An aborted browser connection requesting a CGI would sometimes +produce a GPF Added mime types .pdf=application/pdf & .exe=application/octet-stream Fixed: Env var PATH_INFO is not set (extra path after a real cgi or fi +le) Ini file setting in current directory will override setting from progr +am directory - previously it was only read from current directory Undo fix for AOL, use the default browser Allow alias for cgi-bin Changed color of the 16x16 icon to light blue, so it shows better on t +he start menu's gray background instead of the gray. WorkOfflineTitle option now accepts a list of semicolon separated titl +es. default =Off line werken and Work Offline is built-in Fixed: Does not support streaming audio/video positioning the scroll bar to the middle causes the audio to be stream +ed from the start. URL of the form foo.htm?foo=bar now works

       
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