FoxNet
-- Easy WWW Way of FoxPro
.He
Lingsong
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
School of Mechanical Engineering
Wuhan, China, 430074
Email: helingsong@hotmail.com
Instruction
FoxNet is an embedded www server
that is designed for web programming of Visual FoxPro. The idea is come
from embedded Internet devices, such as web camera and web phone. Where
a mini www server, usually 100KB, is designed to link devices to web directly.
No CGI or third script language are need, the www server is apart of application
programs. Programmers can use languages that they control the devices,
such as C or Assemble, to design web application programs directly. If
we see the database as a device and FoxPro as a device control language,
we can also use FoxPro to design web application programs directly. For
two days hard working, I update my old FoxNet from CGI to the embedded
technique. The advantage is that the www server is apart of FoxPro and
FoxPro programs do not depend on an outer www server and CGI program to
receive and send data to web browser, all these can be done in the inner
of FoxPro. Both compatibility and speed of FoxNet are improved greatly.
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Features
in version 3.0
FoxNet 3.0 includes the following
features:
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1.Embedded www server APIs
Start and stop the embedded www
server from FoxPro. The www server is integrated as a inner server of FoxPro.
Data can be exchanged between FoxPro programs and the www server directly.
Do not need to start a CGI program to exchange data each time, like most
FoxPro web tools do.
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2.HTML APIs
A group of FoxPro HTML programming
APIs. You can design a dynamic homepage easily and quickly.
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