Re: Possibly strange question regarding VB.NET and CGI

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From: Nak (a_at_a.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:49:39 -0000

Hi Tom,

> Yes it's possible. Basically, you would just create your CGI
> application as a Console app. I won't go into the details of CGI here -
> but essentially, all a language has to be able to do is read environment
> variables and handle stdin and stdout. So, your good here :) The place
> where you may have difficulty (at least I did when I played with this
> year or so ago) is getting the permissions right so that your
> application will run.

    Aah, thats good to know, although the last bit worries me. My website
is hosted by a 3rd party so I doubt I can get them to apply permissions like
that, although I *might* be wrong. Thanks for the input at least I have a
solid yes/no answer now :-) Cheers.

Nick.

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