----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Gralish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks, Robert - but the tricky bit is that I have to package the > application and resources for running on multiple unknown servers (some > intranet only)
It doesn't matter whether the server is internet or intranet, so long as it is a web server. What may be a problem for you is if the servers are going to be all sorts of different platforms: Windows/IIS, Linux/Apache, perhaps others? These could cause you problems. You'll need to find a cross-platform solution that will work on all your *servers*. Remember that Shockwave is running client-side in a web-page, so most of the work has to be done on the server. You can pass a lot of the workload onto Shockwave, but you still need to make sure that your servers are passing the same data to Shockwave. Even something like a directory listing will come out differently on an Apache versus an IIS webserver, so you'll need something to ensure the data gets sent in the same format on all servers. You might find a compiled language like C is a good choice for your CGI script because it can run without any dependencies like Perl, PHP or ASP being installed. However you might also find that is a nightmare to get running x-platform. > If this does need a cgi or other sort of server application I may have to > compile a text file that lists the resources/paths instead testing files. A text file would be fine, so long as you can produce the file on all platforms. If the contents aren't going to change much, then perhaps you will update it by FTP at the same time that the dependent files are changed, or something similar. > Is there much problems with switching linked external casts in shockwave? I've never tried, but as far as I know it should work. You might need to use preloadNetThing to make sure the external file is actually available locally before you try to use it. - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
