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From: "Sascha Kimmel" <kimmel@tricos.com>
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Subject: RE: CGI in BETA
Date: 21 Jun 2000 08:31:00 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter von der Ahé [mailto:nospam2159@cs.au.dk]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 7:19 PM
> To: usergroup@mjolner.dk
> Subject: Re: CGI in BETA
>
>
> >>>>> "SK" == Sascha Kimmel <tricos@bravenewweb.net> writes:
>
>  SK> -------------X<-------------------------------------------------
>  SK> ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wkday,$yday,$isdst) =
>  SK> localtime(time); $mon++; $year=$year+1900; print <<EOF; You came
>  SK> here from $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}, your IP-address is
>  SK> $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}, your hostname ist $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'}, your
>  SK> browser is $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} and currently it's $hour
>  SK> o´clock, $min minutes and $sec seconds on $mday.$mon.$year!  EOF
>  SK> -------------X<-------------------------------------------------
>
>  SK> What if you have many many values? Not easy in BETA, isn't it? :)
>
> I think you miss the point.  No one argues that perl is better at
> handling text and regular expression than BETA.  But BETA can be used
> for CGI programming - all you need for this is an executable which can
> read environment variables and knows how to print mime headers.
>
> As for the speed of the above, please note that this would be faster:
>
> print "You came here from ",
>       $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'},
>       " your IP-address is ",
>       $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'},
>       ", your hostname is ", ...;
>
> So it might be more convenient but does not lead to more efficient
> programs especially for many, many values...

Yes, but what if you CHANGE some things in your HTML code?
Always split this up into several lines again and again?
As I mentioned in my other posting I think that it should be easy to
understand and see what a script does, instead of using a strict syntax
which would be faster, but would take you some time to understand.

Regards,
Sascha Kimmel