[Info-vax] HTTP and HTML File Upload Basics

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/22/2020 12:40 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> This might be too specific to the OSU-server, but maybe I can get some
> feedback here.
> 
> If it's possible with some other programming language, it should be
> possible with DCL, right?

Some things are a lot easier in other programming languages.

> Many web sites allow one to browse a list of files on a local disk
> accessible to the web browser and upload one or more, so this isn't
> something really bizarre.

True.

But they will be using a something suitable for the task like
PHP, Perl, ASP.NET C#, something Java, ASP classic VBS etc. not
a shell script like DCL.

>                         My guess is that the OSU server would support
> it.  The question is whether it can be done without having to install
> PHP or whatever.  With regard to the scripting language, is there any
> reason why DCL shouldn't work?

Take a look at CGILIB.C and SCRIPTLIB.C and see if you could do that
in DCL.

Maybe you can. But lots of work.

Arne