hi Tom,
I simply use (or dynamically construct) a page with iframes, in which
each iframe gets loaded by a separate CGI results;
this is the async way. You can trigger the loading of certain iframes
when user clicks on some button in the main part of the page, then a
Javascript function is called by that button to re-load the contents
of some iframe by a corresponding CGI.
No AJAX needed, but plain HTML + Javascript.
cheers
Rob
Quoting "Scott A. Wozny" <sawo...@hotmail.com>:
Sounds like a job for AJAX, but before throwing out the baby with
the bath water I'd seriously consider turning up logging with
timestamps on your existing CGI and seeing if SSI is a loser in its
entirety or if it's one specific part of the process that is tanking
your page load times that you can easily fix (you don't say much
about that data store, but if you've crossed a tipping in regards to
size or number of records, you may need to reconsider your data
storage strategy).
Also, if you've got really old / dumb clients AJAX might not be a
great answer whereas SSI is always entirely under your control.
Best of luck,
Scott
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FROM: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com>
SENT: October 3, 2020 2:08 PM
TO: users@httpd.apache.org <users@httpd.apache.org>
SUBJECT: [users@httpd] Re: Alternatives to SSI (server side
includes)?
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 12:18 Tom Browder
<tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been using server side includes since I started my websites on Apache
...
Any suggestions for SSI replacement with a more asynchronous method?
Let me be more specific about the data flow I'm using with the landing
(home) page of my websites:
+ the first SSI line executes a CGI program that extracts the CGI and
SSL variables and their values. Data of interest include: requesting
IP, email address in the SSL client certificate, time of page load
+ the second line executes a CGI program that generates a link to a
page that presents the current and past statistics of the visitor
based on the stats in the db updated with the first CGI program
-Tom
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