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FastCGI
FastCGI is an protocol that allows a web server to connect to application servers on either the same or remote system eliminating most of the overhead associated with normal CGI interfaces. The FastCGI software developend by DSI allows direct connection to RMS databases as well as an interface to legacy code.
Download FastCGI. Programs are provided with no warranty (see LICENSE.TXT)
For more information on FastCGI, see www.fastcgi.com. Many thanks to Rob Saccoccio for his assistance and support through the FastCGI newsgroup.
These programs have been is use since early 2000 and have been extremely reliable. The only change was required by the upgrade to TCP/IP services V5.0A. If you have trouble with FASTCGI_SETUP on an earlier version, please contact me at .
These programs are written in VMS Basic so they conform to the VMS calling standard. This allows creating a Browser interface to existing VMS applications in Basic or Cobol without significant changes in the business logic. If you want to use FastCGI from C, you would probably be better off downloading the FastCGI library from www.fastcgi.com.
While these programs form the basis of Web enabling a VMS application, there are many other tools and solutions we have developed to support users over the Internet such as JavaScript validation, allowing users to run batch jobs and retrieve reports and authentication using either separate authorization files or the VMS SYSUAF so web access uses the same password and an interactive account.
The secure web server can be any server that supports FastCGI such as Apache or the DSI Secure Web Server which runs on OpenVMS.
Please contact Digital Synergy, Inc. for more information on design, programming and financial applications.
