🚀 go-pugleaf

John Stoner <jstoner@interaccess.com> writes:
>Phil Schuman wrote:
>> Front Page has 'web bots' that take the place of common CGI coding
>> and allow web authors to code pages with no programming effort.
>> However, this requires the 'server extensions' to be installed on the
>> web hosting site.
>> 
> You might be able to load the web bots on your provider yourself, if
> they're compatible and not too big.  How are they implemented
> anyway, are they only Windows-compatible, or are they coded in perl
> or something?  I guess Emperor Bill probably would squash an open
> solution.  But it's worth checking before we assume.

The extensions are written in C, and use the X libs. They need to go
into your server's CGI-BIN directory, and be executable there. They
are also huge, 2.5M times two for Solaris. Thats over 5,000,000 bytes
just to allow Frontpage to upload and check on web pages for you.
(My web servers don't have X even installed, and I'm not willing to).

I think we'll stick to making the people use the FTP gateway that has
been released for Frontpage. 

I don't want 5M of Microsoft binary running on my web server, opening
it up to god knows what. 
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