On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:44:28 -0500 (EST)
Christopher Hicks <chicks@chicks.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 inbox@fpgatools.com wrote:
>> I *NEED* to implement Tucows domain registration soley
>>via
>> a pure Windows OS implementation ....
>
>Have you considered finding a Windows 2000 box to put IIS
>and ActivePerl
>on so you can get into the guts of it and test things?
Yes I have, both the servers and the consideration.
If I lived on a desert island with no internet connection
to ask for help, I'd take that approach and very likey
damage a perfectly functional production server.
Thus I've scrapped that idea.
> If you were trying
>to reinvent a car would you ignore a working example car?
Exactly!
So where is the example of OpenSRS that only uses Windows
Win32, etc., calls??????
> Having
>something that does what you're trying to do that you can
>get into the
>guts of and examine and break and compare to has always
>been a much less
>painful path to realization than the best written spec
>I've ever seen. It
>wasn't /that/ long ago in net terms that the concept of
>the code being the
>spec was popular.
>
>Using ActivePerl's PerlExe it wouldn't be terribly hard
>to strip down the
>standard client into a command line tool that would run
>across a variety
>of Windows versions. We have had very good experience
>with PerlExe and
>stripping down the client to put the innards into
>something else, but I
>have no interest in running OpenSRS on Windows, so I've
>never done the two
>together.
If only I were so lucky ....
>--
></chris>
>
>"Never offend people with style when you can offend them
>with substance."
> - Sam Brown
>
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