Re: CGI Scripting in Forth

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: CGI Scripting in Forth
Date	2015-10-16 13:03 -0700
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Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> writes:
> I put this into my notes.  I will give it a look over.
> I assume at the moment that I could put 8th, SwiftForth Linux or
> MPE Linux on this and do something.  Again I would like to be able
> to use CGI which would be HTTP, wouldn't it? 

Linode is good but rather expensive and there are lots of similar
services that cost lots less (ramnode.com's $15/year, 128 meg SSD plan
is plenty for what you're doing).  Linode's $20/month plan has 2GB of
ram which is massive overkill for a small web site or Forth CGI.

CGI scripts don't run HTTP per se--they just generate HTML text.  The
http server launches the CGI script when a request for it comes in, and
the CGI can access the query and http parameters through environment
variables.  The script can read the query's POST data from its standard
input and write HTML to its standard output.

If you really want to run a concurrent HTTP server in Forth, they
probably exist.  Polyforth multitasking (as I understand it) uses a CPU
busy loop which is completely unsuitable for shared hosting (cpu
hogging) or modern server hardware in general (vastly increased power
consumption compared to idling).  But I think Swift and VFX multitaskers
know how to idle.  I think it's more practical to stay with a more
standard httpd like nginx or apache, and just run cgi's under it.

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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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