Re: Accessing Oracle w/ CGI

Douglas,

try:
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi

That group is a better option to get you going. You can use PERL with the
DBI/DBD modules that do connect to ORACLE and have most of the PL/SQL features in it (cursors etc). www.cpan.org

Good Luck,
Jennifer Mead

Douglas McCarroll wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I don't even qualify as a newbie - I'm considering jumping in. So this is a
> very big picture inquiry - I'm not even sure I know the right questions!
>
> Is it possible to access data in an Oracle DB using HTTP post or get calls?
> I assume that I'd be making calls to a CGI script which would then access
> Oracle, but am open to any other approaches.
>
> I'm not interested in a solution like WebDB's ability to create data-based
> web pages - the reason is that I want to use Shockwave applets - rather than
> simple HTML pages - to make the post and/or get calls. The Shockwave plugin
> interfaces directly with the browser and initiates the calls without the
> benefit of any HTML get/post code.
>
> TIA
>
> Douglas McCarroll
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 23:15:35 CEST