[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Dirk Munk]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-08 13:41:21 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>
>> Bill Gunshannon skrev den 2015-06-08 15:20:
>>> In article <mkt1s9$i52$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>>     David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>
>>> What happened to "the right tool for the job".  Just what is it about
>>> VMS that makes it a better choice for running a webserver than one of
>>> the existing Unix options?
>>
>> It is "better" if the source data already is on VMS.
>> In no other case is VMS "better" as an web server.
>
> It's not even that clear-cut.  Even if the source data is already on
> OpenVMS, it may well be beneficial to have the web server(s) running on
> separate box(es), whether that is for software availability or load
> sharing or caching or DDoS or network security partitioning or otherwise.

Sure, using DECnet between systems could also be a proper show stopper 
for a hacker :-)

>
>>
>>> Funny, you used mixed case in the sentence above.  The teletype is
>>> gone. we actually have 52 lettters...
>>
>> 58.
>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäö
>> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ
>
> 52?   David is being somewhat parochial.
>
> Add Spanish with 27 letters (ñ) and the acutes (é, ó, etc), French
> orthography, German, and add those to a host of other languages, and
> pretty soon you've got Unicode.
>
> Much like the too-short username fields tend to annoy Mr. Schenkenberg,
> if your code isn't dealing with these characters in your user
> interfaces, then you can be puzzling or even irritating a subset of your
> customers.  Even for US-only products in the US, Spanish is increasingly
> commonly used.  Having at least some of your content localized into
> Spanish can help your users.
>
>