On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > This is kind of a theorical question, but I though I'd ask before > starting to code =) > > Basically I have a desktop app which I need to retrofit into a > web-app. My idea is to cut it in a visual and a non-visual part and > implement the visual part in HTML+JavaScript and keep the non-visual > like it is now, in Pascal. > > So, the problem is that CGI apps are started for every request, correct?
Correct. > So how should I proceed to obtain a application which will keep > running for the entire session of a user? I don't want to simply save > session info because the application is rather large, there are lots > of things going on and it would be much easier for my coding if I > could keep the program running on the web server ... > > Any ideas? You MUST save the session. How the app knows about the user logged? To keep the app running on the web server, read about FastCGI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI <your FPC trunk>\packages\fcl-web\src\ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal