Not quite an Expert.
CGI Expert reviewed.
CGI Expert heralds the day when web-scripting was not available and people hated Perl or .ASP.
In those days, HTML was in its infancy and Delphi was touted as the best CGI compiler. Delphi was anything but the best -
The main problem with Delphi was session control. The CGIs works fine (anyone remember Netscape 2.0 and IE 2.0 ?) but it was incredibly difficult to make make Internet web-pages with sessions. Sure, you could make a shopping cart, but the problem is placing cookies and HTTP session control to browser and remembering them.
Delphi supported Apache (old version), IIS (old version) and NSAPI (Netscape). The main and most difficult problem was it did not expose the IIS-session-control number (what number??) and Apache session ID for that browser. that made it extremely difficult to implement session control.
Two years passed, Delphi 6, Delphi 7 had same problem. It was difficult to make use website or shopping-cart (or anything meaningful) with Delphi.
Since CGI was considered security risk, there was difficult problem finding web-site hosts that supported CGI-BIN. Those sites would cost US$50-60 to host per month (or more like US$99+ with all the required features you needed).
Since the web-hosting costs money and few updates to CGI-Expert, it became quickly clear that it wasn't viable solution.
Article update #1 - March 2013
1) Prices for ISP hosting is at 2001 estimated prices. Prices have dropped since then.
See: Article Corrections
CGI Expert reviewed.
CGI Expert heralds the day when web-scripting was not available and people hated Perl or .ASP.
In those days, HTML was in its infancy and Delphi was touted as the best CGI compiler. Delphi was anything but the best -
The main problem with Delphi was session control. The CGIs works fine (anyone remember Netscape 2.0 and IE 2.0 ?) but it was incredibly difficult to make make Internet web-pages with sessions. Sure, you could make a shopping cart, but the problem is placing cookies and HTTP session control to browser and remembering them.
Delphi supported Apache (old version), IIS (old version) and NSAPI (Netscape). The main and most difficult problem was it did not expose the IIS-session-control number (what number??) and Apache session ID for that browser. that made it extremely difficult to implement session control.
Two years passed, Delphi 6, Delphi 7 had same problem. It was difficult to make use website or shopping-cart (or anything meaningful) with Delphi.
Since CGI was considered security risk, there was difficult problem finding web-site hosts that supported CGI-BIN. Those sites would cost US$50-60 to host per month (or more like US$99+ with all the required features you needed).
Since the web-hosting costs money and few updates to CGI-Expert, it became quickly clear that it wasn't viable solution.
Article update #1 - March 2013
1) Prices for ISP hosting is at 2001 estimated prices. Prices have dropped since then.
See: Article Corrections
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