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This essay does not describe an existing computer program, just one that should exist. This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have prepared to help you is right here.

This project outline is not like the artificial, tidy little problems you are spoon-fed in school, when all the facts you need are included, nothing extraneous is mentioned, the answer is fully specified, along with hints to nudge you toward a single expected canonical solution. This project is much more like the real world of messy problems where it is up to you to fully the define the end point, or a series of ever more difficult versions of this project and research the information yourself to solve them.

Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; or give you any additional materials. I have too many other projects of my own.

Though I am a programmer by profession, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project in any way you please and to keep all the profits from your endeavour.

Please do not email me about this project without reading the disclaimer above.

This is a very simple echoing tool to help you understand CGI (Common Gateway Interface) messages. Instead of directing the data from a form to the standard CGI server, you direct it to one running the cgitutor.

It echoes it back in three forms:

  1. Raw, exactly as it arrived.
  2. Decoded, turning punctuation and control chars back to normal form.
  3. Parsed, into keyword=value pairs.

The Center for the Study of Art and Technology National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan offers a debugging tool that provides the parsed format (3) only.

GET http://techart.nia.edu.tw/cgi-bin/query/
POST http://techart.nia.edu.tw/cgi-bin/post-query/
book cover recommend book⇒More Servlets and Java Server Pagesto book home
by Marty Hall 978-0-13-067614-6 paperback
publisher Pearson Education
published 2001-12-26
Complete text of the book available on line in pdf format.
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book cover recommend book⇒Core Web Programming, second editionto book home
by Marty Hall and Gary Cornell 978-0-13-089793-0 paperback
publisher Prentice Hall 978-0-613-92274-6 hardcover
published 2001-06-03
1250 pages. Also has some simple RMI examples. This is a great doorstop of a book. It has a few chapters on client-server programming in Java and a section of that is on CGI. I have looked at hundreds of Java books and found nothing that deals in depth with client side Java talking to CGI, except Marty’s book. It is really very simple and he does an excellent job of explaining it. Marty has posted all the source code examples from the book for anyone to use. These contain updates and errata fixes you don’t get on the CD-ROM that comes with the book.
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explains how to do this. It is a very easy project. All you need is a server somewhere to run the code on.

You could turn this into a commercial project by showing ads along with the other info.


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