OK. With much help from Tech support I've got OICGI working and holly cow I've even developed a small application that is using this capability. Now the question of Persistence has arisen. My understanding is that you must have a web server with a user logged in and running OI and INET_GATEWAY. I am trying to determine if we can have this running without having a user logged in to the server.

Thanks

S Berger

S-

What type of server are you running? IIS? Netscape? Dunbar?

Mike Ruane

WinWin Solutions Inc.

Sorry, We are running IIS.

S

Openinsight would need to run as an NT service for you to use it without anybody logged in to the server. I don't think OI can do that. It is possible is write an active server page or perl script to forward the oicgi call off to another machine running another simple web server, run oicgi on that, then pipe the response back out IIS. (Run a couple of machines and you have multi-threaded oicgi)

I'm not sure what that has to do with persistence, though. In web terms persistence usually describes remembering settings between calls. This is easily accomplished in OI. Come up with a scheme to key a session, for instance ip_Address*start_time, include session_key as a hidden form field or cookie, then pass it back and forth with each form. That lets you store lists, last record, or whatever in oi tables without passing it out on the web.

Hope this helps.

Bob

Bob,

Thanks for the response. One of the administrators here has info on an application that MIGHT allow us handle this. I am going to look into it and I will post my findings here, if they're good.

I was using a more general definition of the term persistence. I was simply refering to the application always being available. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Thanks again

S

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