fpCGI failure, part 2

[Bruce Easton]

(inline responses - Bruce Easton, STN, Inc.)
Nancy Palmquist wrote Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:53 PM:
> Bruce,
>
> I do not say that onegate is not an excellent tool.  It has
> features not found
> in fpCGI and you are right it is structured somewhat differently,
> but in many
> ways the same.
>
> I was able adjust programming to onegate version without too much trouble.
>
> But I found that both have the same basic flow and require the
> same tedious
> attention to detail.
>
> Both need the environment clearly defined, since nothing else is assumed.
>
> Both need a robust filePro process that has taken into account
> all crash issues
> and is running flawlessly.
>

Agreed.  Good points.

[..]
>
> In one case, we installed onegate for features unavailable in
> fpCGI.  Now the
> customer runs both onegate and fpCGI on the same servers.  BTW -
> the feature we
> needed was the ability to receive a text field - a special form
> field that would
> allow for free form text.  fpCGI would not handle it properly,
> onegate does.
>

I forgot about that.  Now I remember writing some strange routines
to handle textarea elements under fpCGI, and they worked, but
I didn't like having to parse them separately line-by-line, if I
remember correctly, from the rest of the elements coming in (I
think because of the interruption of a consistent name-value pair).
And I think it had to also consider in that not-so-straightforward
manner when a new record containing that type of element needed to
be created vs. updated. Of course these are a breeze under OneGate,
and I've only needed to do it via XML output, but OneGate optionally
supports saving textarea output into separate files instead of in
the XML output. (That I guess could be used for those really big
blobs? - I wouldn't know - I'm fpblobophobic.)

> There were also more options for firewall setups in onegate.  It
> could allow a
> very narrow network of computers to interact without too much
> problem.

[snipped the dirty pants parable]

> Nancy