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Mark Jacobs wrote:
> Can you POST from a browser on a PC to a server app on the same PC ?

If the server app is a webserver or a dedicated webserver then yes.
Otherwise no.

Where the webserver runs is not important. It can be on any machine
that is reachable.

> How do you do this? I assume you write your CGI program the same way (or must
> you use a TWebApplication to do this?). 

If you have a cgi exectable then that should be started by the webserver.
The webserver will forward the POST info to your cgi app.
You can also build a dedicated webserver: a webserver that handles the POST
info itself.

 > Does loopback IP addresses come into
> this? I can get as far as the CGI program starting up,

Are you starting the cgi yourself ? That will not do.

> but there is no
> environment variables or STDIN set up to allow it run normally. How does one
> go about a "stand-alone FORM POST"?

What do you mean with a "stand-alone FORM POST"? Do you have in mind
an exe that gets the POST info from the browser ? That would be
a (dedicated) webserver then.

Hans.