Client-server HTTP communications made easy
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This article covers the problem of making client requests to Web servers over HTTP. More specifically, this article addresses two interrelated problems, sending data to a Web server using the POST method and processing the request with a CGI script at the server side. The purpose of this work is to provide a basis for understanding how these tasks can be performed in APL. While the proposed solutions are of a general form, the discussion is oriented around working examples, instead of simply providing reference material.
The APL code discussed in the article uses a number of .Net libraries that greatly assist the task of programming and do most of the drudgery work for us, hence the name of the article.
References
[1]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol. HTTP/1.1, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
[2]
Stephen Spainhour & Valerie Quercia. WebMaster In a Nutshell. O'Reilly, 1996.
[3]
Microsoft .NET Framework documentation.
[4]
Shishir Gundavaram. CGI Programming on the World Wide Web. O'Reilly, 1996.
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Published: 01 December 2007
Published in SIGAPL Volume 35, Issue 4
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