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ABSTRACT

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 & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1996
• 3: Microsoft .NET Framework documentation.
• 4: Shishir Gundavaram, CGI programming on the World Wide Web, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1996

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Client/server

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design
          Subjects: Network communications

  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia

General Terms:
Design, Management