[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) skrev den 2015-06-03 22:41:
> In article <mkno2i$bh$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>> Had a short conversation with David Jones some years ago.  Best I can
>> remember, he said that the OSU web server hadn't been updated for a
>> while, and from the way he said it, I got the impression there probably
>> wouldn't be any new work.  Of course, things can always change.
>
> IIRC he has retired now, and moved the stuff from OSU to source forge.
> The mailing list seems to have dried up, which surprised me because it
> is independent of where the software lives.  I can't be bothered to
> navigate through the SourceForge website, especially because it is not
> easy with browsers available on VMS.  :-(
>
>> However, Mark Daniels is adding to WASD, and appears to be available to
>> look at problems.
>
> But if he is a single point of (potential) failure, what will happen
> when he is no longer available?
>

I'd prefer a single point that *is* available then one that isn't.
Hopefully VSI can make some arrangement so that Mr Daniels will
not be alone anymore.

 > Of course, the question is whether the newest version NEEDS any
 > updates. Is there any essential feature missing?  I don't know.

You can check: http://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd_root/doc/misc/scripting.html
Which of those are available natively in OSU?
CGIplus, FasyCGI, ISAPI, HTML5 Web Sockets ?
Persistent servers for Java, Perl, PHP, Python and gSOAP?