[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Dave Froble]

On 8/20/2018 9:58 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/17/2018 11:51 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>> Anyway, to answer your original question, VSI would be wise to
>> commission some new books and/or republish some existing stuff. For
>> example, it was quite easy to do internet programming from BASIC or C
>> when we were using the "Application Libraries" associated with
>> TCPware. But back in 2014 we were forced to move to MultiNet where
>> (like TCPIP Services for OpenVMS) Application Libraries do not exist
>> so you need to roll your own code. Now I was able to do this during
>> our conversion project from Alpha to Itanium but all the time I
>> wondered how VMS newbies would do it.
>
> Yes.
>
> But note that the situation today is slightly different.
>
> There are 3 scenarios:
> A) The application is done in a language that comes with such
>     libraries standard (Java, other JVM based languages, Python, PHP
>     etc.).
> B) The application already exists written in C or C++ and just need
>     to be made working on VMS.
> C) Write from scratch on VMS.
>
> #C is getting less and less relevant over time.
>
> That said then I am still a big fan of adding LIB$HTTP_GET
> and LIB$HTTP_POST to VMS.

Not a problem.  I wrote a HTTP_POST years ago.  Works.  Could have more 
bells and whistles.

The problem, on VMS, is the HTTPS_POST on VMS.  OpenSSL on VMS is days 
late and dollars short.