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Re: CGI Scripting in Forth

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Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> writes:
>I don't 
>think that security would be an issue for me as I am
>versed enough to avoid such problems.

Possible, but not easy.

>One concern for me is that many of my clients use cheap
>hosting.  On these cheap hosting machines there is 
>something called shared hosting, which means that more
>than one customer leases use of the same box which sits
>in the warehouse full of computers owned by the hosting
>company.  They probably don't want you to install weird
>programming languages that they don't know about.

You rent a virtual machine where you have full control, and then
install any software you want on it (they may only give you a limited
choice of OSes, but you can install any software on the OS).

>One thing that comes to mind is using gforth. A very long
>time ago I remember experimenting with this and having to
>use a bash #! control "word" in the script that I was
>running to start it up.  But then again I vaguely remember 
>trying this experiment again, to no avail and then contacting 
>my cheap hosting company and having them tell me that I was 
>not allowed to run gforth.  So security gets tighter and
>life gets more restrictive as time goes by.  Does it help?

If you rent extra-cheap and all the customers run in the same OS
image, then yes, you can get such limitations (and many more), but if
you rent a virtual machine, then you don't.

>So, if I am using a hosting company they are probably going
>to provide or only be willing to accommodate Linux or Windows.
>This means that FOS is out of the question, at least and unless 
>you are willing to point out a company willing to host a FOS 
>box.

If you provide them with an image for the OS for the VM software they
are using, even that may be possible.

>CGI would be necessary.  I would then need HTTP.  HTTPS might 
>be nice to have.

From what I have read, it may become a necessity in the
not-too-distant future.

About CGI, I did some work in that direction in 2011 (extracting and
decoding the data passed in a CGI request).  I did not find a good way
to package it up at the time, and I had no need, so I did not pursue
it further.

- anton
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CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-15 15:58 -0700
  Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 08:15 +0300
    Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-16 12:07 -0700
      Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-16 13:03 -0700
        Re: CGI Scripting in Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-16 11:13 -1000
          Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-16 14:23 -0700
            Re: CGI Scripting in Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-16 13:34 -1000
              Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-16 18:26 -0700
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 22:44 -0400
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-16 20:02 -0700
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 00:33 -0400
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-17 07:14 +0000
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-16 21:26 -1000
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-17 10:36 -0700
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-16 21:06 -1000
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-17 00:12 -0700
                Re: CGI Scripting in Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-16 21:42 -1000
      Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 19:26 +0300
  Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 04:24 -0700
  Re: CGI Scripting in Forth josv@planet.nl - 2015-10-16 07:50 -0700
    Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-16 10:01 -0700
      Re: CGI Scripting in Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-16 08:20 -1000
        Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-16 11:33 -0700
  Re: CGI Scripting in Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-17 17:18 +0000
    Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-20 11:37 -0700
      Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-20 11:59 -0700
  Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-20 11:53 -0700
    Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-20 12:09 -0700
      Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-20 12:19 -0700
        Re: CGI Scripting in Forth Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-28 11:51 -0700

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