Re: Oracle as HTTP server?

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:43:25 +0100, Joost Mulders <mail_at_j-mulders.demon.nl> wrote:

>Joost Mulders wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I have an 8.1.5 database with a bunch of mp3's in BLOBS. Is there an easy way to give access to the files via HTTP for personal use, i.e. Oracle as a webserver?
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>> I am simple and I want to be able to execute simple commands like "mpg123 "http://oracle_database_server/mp3file.mp3"
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>> Is this possible?, where to start looking ?
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>> Thanks !
>>
>> Joost
>
>
>Well, replying to my own post:
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>I've written a commandline OCI utility called 'oblob' that can read and write blobs to a database. Now, I can do this:
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> oblob -c user/passwd_at_database -s "select mp3 from list" | mpg123 -
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>Which was what I want.
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>oblob is at http://www.j-mulders.demon.nl/oblob
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>Cheers,
>
>Joost

Hey, that's nifty.

BTW, a typo: "The queury may ".

Brian Received on Wed Dec 26 2001 - 10:54:07 CST