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  • Jonathan Wood
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    Understanding Web Services

    I'm looking into implementing Web services to provide product activation
    codes to resellers. This seems to be going fine.

    One large reseller tells me they support CGI for this purpose, as thought
    it's the same as Web services. Clearly, CGI is not the same as a Web
    service, but reading about it, it seems similar in that it somehow calls
    code running on my server.

    Can anyone clarify for me the primary differences between CGI and Web
    services? Specifically, can a CGI interface be implemented using ASP.NET, or
    could a Web service be made to work by code that calls CGI?

    Thanks!

    Jonathan

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    • bruce barker
      #2
      Re: Understanding Web Services

      cgi is method for a url to specify a program to run, either a binary or
      a scripting language like perl, ruby or python. a cgi program can call a
      webservice or act as a webservice, just depends on how its coded. often
      cgi programs expect a xml post and return xml, sometimes they do form
      post, just depends.



      Jonathan Wood wrote:
      I'm looking into implementing Web services to provide product activation
      codes to resellers. This seems to be going fine.
      >
      One large reseller tells me they support CGI for this purpose, as
      thought it's the same as Web services. Clearly, CGI is not the same as a
      Web service, but reading about it, it seems similar in that it somehow
      calls code running on my server.
      >
      Can anyone clarify for me the primary differences between CGI and Web
      services? Specifically, can a CGI interface be implemented using
      ASP.NET, or could a Web service be made to work by code that calls CGI?
      >
      Thanks!
      >
      Jonathan
      >

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        • Jonathan Wood
          #3
          Re: Understanding Web Services

          Thanks, can you tell me what, if any, support ASP.NET has to implement a CGI
          interface?

          Thanks.

          --
          Jonathan Wood
          SoftCircuits Programming
          Home page - SoftCircuits
          http://www.softcircuits.com


          "bruce barker" <nospam@nospam. comwrote in message
          news:eTokwih7IH A.3724@TK2MSFTN GP03.phx.gbl...
          cgi is method for a url to specify a program to run, either a binary or a
          scripting language like perl, ruby or python. a cgi program can call a
          webservice or act as a webservice, just depends on how its coded. often
          cgi programs expect a xml post and return xml, sometimes they do form
          post, just depends.
          >
          >
          >
          Jonathan Wood wrote:
          >I'm looking into implementing Web services to provide product activation
          >codes to resellers. This seems to be going fine.
          >>
          >One large reseller tells me they support CGI for this purpose, as thought
          >it's the same as Web services. Clearly, CGI is not the same as a Web
          >service, but reading about it, it seems similar in that it somehow calls
          >code running on my server.
          >>
          >Can anyone clarify for me the primary differences between CGI and Web
          >services? Specifically, can a CGI interface be implemented using ASP.NET,
          >or could a Web service be made to work by code that calls CGI?
          >>
          >Thanks!
          >>
          >Jonathan
          >>

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