[Xitami] CGI

[Gunnar Swan]

Sure. I use  IA mail server (on same box as Xitami) ... www.tnsoft.com
I write an EXE that can accept command line parameters, explained in a moment.
When a mail comes into a specific 'robot' email account, the mail server writes the email content to the hard drive and starts the EXE, providing as a parameter the 
path to the email file it just wrote.

After that, it's a matter of permissions and what you want to do with the email.
In this case, I have remote programs (clients) that via code ... send the email to a specific email address.
My robots ... EXE's .. unencrypt the data and based on the structure of the data, post the data to the 
database and send confirmation emails .

Advantage 1 ... The server ( 166 mhz Cyrix) can access 250 messages in 15 seconds without barking.  The messages are cached and stored until the contents are 
executed.

Advantage 2 ... The data sits encrypted in the mail message. Even if hacked, the contents are useless to intruders.

Advantage 3 ... The robots are run sequentially and can take their time.

Advantage 4 ... The robots can actually execute on another machine and 'poll' for new messages. With this technique, I can build a transaction processing system.

Works for me.  I use CGI, but not to post data. Only to read content from a relational database and run the queries on the server.




1/9/02 5:04:25 PM, "Paul N Shortis" <Paul.N.Shortis@transport.qld.gov.au> wrote:

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>Forgive my ignorance Gunner, I'm a veteran C++ / Database & embedded systems
>programmer but I've only been doing web programming (mostly with php) for about
>12 months. I'd like to know more about robots, what they can do, their
>architecture & implimentation. Are there any web refererences you can give me
>that explain more ???
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>Paul
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>By removing any and all forms from the VB project and using modules and classes
>... you can get an EXE down to 28 - 32k that loads in a flash.
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