[Info-vax] HTTP and HTML File Upload Basics

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/21/2020 11:27 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-10-21 kl. 16:41, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 10/20/2020 8:18 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> At the core of a web server is a "listener" which can implement 
>>> accepting incoming socket requests.
>>>
>>> The "payload" can then be some standard action, or, a "script" to 
>>> execute can be part of the payload.
>>>
>>> Web servers usually are set up to perform some standard actions, and 
>>> other actions will require a script for the desired action.  These 
>>> scripts are what allows customization of a web server.  If very 
>>> specific actions are required, that most likely will require a custom 
>>> script.
>>
>> More common terms today would be "static content" and "dynamic content".
>>
>> Static content being HTML, CSS and JS.
>>
>> Dynamic content being PHP, ASP.NET, Jave EE, RoR, node.js, CGI scripts 
>> etc..
> 
> I would also count what is commonly called Ajax into the dynamic part.

Terminology can be difficult.

Seen from web server perspective a HTML5 bundle (HTML, CSS, JS) is
static content, because the web server basically just considers
them a bunch of bytes.

Seen from the user perspective it is dynamic content as it changes.

> I'm currently building a test mobile applications (POC) using
> MIT App Inventor that first scans a product label (QR) and then
> makes Ajax calls to our VMS system to fetch information for
> display on the Android phone. Could be used on the factory floor
> to quickly lookup the status of an item. A lot of fun and it
> definitely makes “the old VAX” look better… 😊

What do you use for the web services?

Arne