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From:Thomas Hurst
Date:16 May 2001 at 20:56:05
Subject:Re: Amiga and ASP

On Wed, 16 May 2001 18:48:27 +0500, Joris Kempen wrote:

> I want to add some interactive pieces to my website, like some simple forms
> that would as action would send an email to me as webmaster and someone to
> the user.

Formmail scripts are 10 a penny, and most hosts provide one.

> At work I use asp for this, now I want to do the same at my website.

You do this sort of thing for a living and you need our assistance? heh
:)

> Is it doable to create/ test all of this with an Amiga? Or should I use my
> PC for this. I can use IIS there but for the idea for being an all
> Amiga-made website I want to do this on my Amiga :)

ASP/IIS and VBScript are Microsoft things.. don't hold your breath for
an Amiga version.

> Is there some environment on the Amiga that makes it doable? Don't have to
> that easy or compaitable like IIS or Personal Web Manager.

IIS? Compatable? bwah.

> If it would be doable to edit (that should be doable), ftp-upload and
> testing it on an Amiga browser it would be good enough.

You'll need a server to test, and if you're using ASP and VBScript it's
gonna have to be a Win32 machine. If you want to use your Amiga for
testing, you could try an Amiga Apache/Perl/PHP port.



Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freak@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/

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