Re: Oracle WebServer 1.0 Question

Thomas Bates wrote:
>
> We're currently running Oracle WebServer 1.0, and had a questions about it's
> Oracle gateway.
>
> I'd like to be able to run it underneath Netscape Enterprise Server, instead
> of their "not very good" WebServer.
>
> I've moved the owa executable over to cgi-bin, and tried a few different
> styles to get it to take, but it also gave the "Unable to complete transaction"
> information.
>
> If anyone has sucessfully made the Oracle gateway interface to run underneath a
> Netscape web server, I'd appreciate knowing how.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>
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> #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
> $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
> lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
Thomas,

This is probably not the answer you want to hear, but here I go anyways. Get Oracle WebServer 2.1. It contains a 'hook' written using Netscapes NSAPI that allows the Oracle Web Reqeust Broker to accept connections from a Netscape http server. Web Request Broker is a multi threaded request dispatcher that communicates with persistent backend processes, instead of using CGI. Bottom line: your server spends less time forking new shells to run CGI scripts and then cleaning up after those shells when they die and more time processing http reqeusts. So, in WebServer 2.0 the Oracle Web Agent is NOT a CGI program.

The list price for WebServer 2.1 is about $2495. It is production on Solaris, and should be on NT soon with other Unix ports to follow.

You should be able to find a white paper at www.oracle.com. If not, email me and I can send forward something to you.

Good Luck,

Tim Received on Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CST