Building .exe's that dyamicly build web pages [Archive]

AustinP

Mar 18th, 2000, 12:32 PM

I am trying to find out if there is a way to build a VB app that can be called(not using ASP) sending paramters to return a HTML generated page. An example would be:

http://www.coolsite.com/vbprogram.exe?fruit=apples

and having a vb program take the parameter and dynamically return HTML, i.e.:

<HTML>
Your favorite fruit are apples.
</HTML>

The purpose of this app is to be able to build a application that could run on either IIS or Netscape, and not rely on IIS as the ONLY delivery method.

Thanks, your help is much appreciated!

privoli

Mar 20th, 2000, 04:13 PM

Austin,

Good question, However.. It won't work simply because the HTTPd (HTTP Server) is expecting a CGI only .exe
Even if the HTTPd would run the .exe it wont give input/ouput to the .exe as it is a Win32 Executable.

You'll need to look at CGI rather than VB Executable.