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Re: Linux to windows IPC

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On 05/21/11 08:25 PM, Matt Charles wrote:
> Thanks for the input so far, but I'll try and explain more clearly.  :-)
>
> I have an existing Red Hat Linux C function  (complex business logic
> that contains some database access),  it takes some strings as input
> parameters and returns a string result.    This function is currently in
> a batch program and works fine.
>
> However I now also want to call this function somehow from a new Windows
> ..NET GUI application.  The user will press a button, get an hour glass
> and wait for the response to come back  (this is what I mean by
> synchronous).     However there may be multiple users on different PC
> pressing the button at the same time, so the solution will have to cope
> with that.
>
> So I'm going to need to repackage my C code in some way to make this happen.
>
> One possible solution: Package the batch program up as a CGI executable
> and call it from Apache.   The .NET code will build a URL with
> parameters and submit it to the apache webserver. The server runs the
> CGI program, which extracts the parameters from the QUERY_STRING
> environment variable that Apache creates and then calls the C function
> and outputs the result as HTML to stdout.  The .NET client can then
> interpret this to get the result.     I'm sure this will work but the
> approach seems a little "dated".

So is the wheel, but we still use them.

Most "web service" layers (including windows beloved SOAP) are just 
fancy wrappers around what you describe.  Sure you could be more 
"modern" and use SOAP, but why bother?

-- 
Ian Collins

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Linux to windows  IPC Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 08:21 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-20 10:38 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-05-20 15:00 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2011-05-20 13:19 -0700
    Re: Linux to windows  IPC Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> - 2011-05-21 09:25 +0100
      Re: Linux to windows  IPC Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-21 20:34 +1200
      Re: Linux to windows  IPC Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-05-22 21:26 +0100
      Re: Linux to windows  IPC Matt Charles <mcharles48@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 12:19 +0100
  Re: Linux to windows  IPC john.spooner@gmail.com - 2012-10-25 06:31 -0700

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