[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[mcleanjoh at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:35:09 AM UTC+10, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
 
> 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.
> 

I used WASD about 10 or 12 years ago.  I have a feeling that Mark provided the source code so it could be built on our platform.  He was also certainly quick to respond if we had any questions.

We used it with auto-generated and (hopefully) unique tags so that we could store data on the VMS system and pass that tag and little other info (if any) in the URL rather than the long URLs being used by other web-servers at the time.  (I heard once of medical or tax records being available via a webserver and if you changed a character or two in the URL you could see someone else's records.) IIRC VMS access controls meant that everything was secure.

WASD is very much a VMS implementation of a webserver, not a port of some other, perhaps buggy, code.