Re: [Bug-gne]ID and password server

[Christopher Mahan]

Well, ASP runs native on Win 95, 98, 2K, within IIS.

It's been ported to Linux by Chilisoft, but there's a fee ($799) that I'd 
rather not consider.

As far as it's power, well, it's able to call other programs, (activex) able 
to run either/both jscript(arrghh) and vbscript(my choice). It's also able 
to call dlls.

The dlls can be programmed in VB or C++ or whatever, as long as they are COM 
compliant.

The COM programs can then call windows API,  so it can do a reboot, for 
example, or shut off the monitor and hard drive, map network drives, connect 
to remote computers, connect or disconnect printers, that kind of thing.

Also, asp can call wscript, which is a newer version of dos command line 
batches (also known as VBscript, or vbs for short) and we all know how 
powerful that little sucker is :)

You can link to word, excel, powerpoint, access, sql, outlook, and basically 
any programs built for windows after 1995.

ASP also connects to databases using ADODB, and can connect (in its latest 
version) to text files, xml files, excel files, any ODBC database, and a 
sleuth of other things I'll not explore until I need them.

It can, for example, do automated maintenance on SQL2000 databases, using 
the SQL DMO (distributed management objects)

ASP can also, using the MSXML3.0 COM tool, parse and navigate xml, send http 
requests to any server on the internet, and use the resulting page into the 
ASP script. This by the way is the foundation of the whole .NET thing.

so server A gets a call from client X. server A runs the ASP script. The 
script calls a page on server B, waits for server B to reply, then uses the 
result from server B to formulate it's response to client X.

so that client X never ever knew that server B was involved.

Also, server B never gets malformed requests.

Anyway.

I like to use it, and the fact that the calls from server A to server B are 
made using http over tcp/ip means that server A could be running IIS and 
server B could be running, well, anything...

I personally disagree to using microsoft products, but the impatient me 
doesn't want to learn C, so Linux is not as friendly for me, and a hurdle 
more than anything.






> From: Tom Chance <address@hidden>
>
> Ah ok then. We should port it to something like mySQL
> though, to make it properly free. How versatile is asp
> by the way? Because when Rob Scott and I came up with
> a system of Perl +mySQL, we though perl to be the best
> language because of its power. We don't know much
> about asp though, to be honest.
>
> Mind you if you're interested we worked out all the
> fields necessary, the field types, and other fine
> details, and how the process of submission and
> retrieval would work. It's the same as your system,
> only with asp as the parsing language, and text files
> as the body of text storage.
>
> http://www.state-embers.co.uk/alexandria/index.htm
>
> Tom Chance
>
>
> --- Christopher Mahan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Right now it's an access database. It's indexed and
> > only has three fields,
> > so it should handle 100,000 okay. It's running on a
> > dual PIII 850, so it's
> > fast.
> >
> > The data actually could reside in xml or in plain
> > text, since it's a simple
> > list.
> >
> > Also, it can be ported to any database. I have
> > PosgreSQL on a server here at
> > work, but it's behind the firewall, so...
> >
> > Since the system is OS agnostic, the database type
> > does not matter.
> >
> > Chris Mahan
> >
> > >From: Tom Chance <address@hidden>
> > >Reply-To: address@hidden
> > >To: address@hidden
> > >Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]ID and password server
> > >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:10:43 -0800 (PST)
> > >
> > >Looks fair enough. What sort of database will you
> > use
> > >to store these IDs?
> > >
> > >
> > >--- Christopher Mahan <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > > Added a page describing the ID generator, and
> > the
> > > > id/password server.
> > > >
> > > > There's no link on it from the main page,
> > because I
> > > > don't think people
> > > > beside developers should know about this
> > mechanism,
> > > > but you guys can look a
> > > > them and tinker.
> > > >
> > > > I'll clean up the database later on, it's still
> > in
> > > > testing stages, so knock
> > > > yourselves out.
> > > >
> > > > Note: the max length for the ID is 10
> > characters...
> > > >
> > > >
> > http://www.christophermahan.com/gne/pass/use.html
> > > >
> > > > Am looking at making the contributor login next,
> > and
> > > > the indexing server.
> > > >
> > > > Christopher Mahan
> > > > address@hidden
> > > > http://www.christophermahan.com/
> > > >
> > > >
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