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Web-DB Interfaces

If you know other useful links, please tell me.

Examples of Databases in the Web

• The Internet Movie Database
• The WWW Bible Gateway
• Amazon.Com (Online Bookstore)
• jpc: Music CDs etc.
• Databases & Logic Programming
• Database about Waterball (Currently being developed by a former student in Germany)

Literature about Web-DB Interfaces, Commented Product Lists

• Web Developers Virtual Library
• WWW-DBMS Gateways (Pyung-Chul Kim)
• Links to Vendors of DB-Web Interfaces (From an article in a German computer magazine: Jo Bager: Angebot und Abfrage. c't 6/1996)
• WDVL - the Encyclopedia of Web Design

Web-DB Interfaces: Products

• IBM DB2 World Wide Web Connection
• Embedding Scripting and SQL Access for HTML (David J. Hughes)
  Mini SQL Homepage
• Beyond Data Basics: Writing JavaScript Database Applications (J.J. Kuslich) Part II
• WDB - A Web to Database Interface
• HotSQL
  User's Guide
• Cold Fusion (Allaire Corp.)
• SQLweb
• iHTML
• Microsoft Internet Information Server: Active Server Pages
• ScriptEase
• EveryWare Tango
• dbCGI
  Syntax von dbCGI-Dateien
• PHP
• Python
• Java Servlets
  • White Paper
• JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• ZOPE

Example Programs in Various Languages

• HotSQL
• dbCGI
• IBM DB2 World Wide Web Connection
• Oracle Web Server (PL/SQL)

Database Interfaces for Programming Languages

• DBI - A Database Interface Module for perl5
• Microsoft ODBC Web Page

CGI Programming

If you know other useful links, please tell me.

Official Specification

• The Common Gateway Interface (vom NCSA)
• The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1

Tutorials and FAQs

• CGI Made Really Easy (von James Marshall)
• CGI Programming 101 (Jacqueline Hamilton)
• Introduction to The Common Gateway Interface
• CGI Programming (Information about the book by Shishir Gundavaram)
• CGI Programming FAQ (Nick Kew)
• CGI Programming OpenFAQ
• BETA Issue 9: WEBTECH

Forms in HTML

• Mosaic Fill-Out Form Support
• Example 1: Text Input Fields
• Example 2: Checkboxes, Radiobuttons
• Example 3: Menues, Textarea
• Example for Environment Variables and Input
• FORM-Element in the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
• Form Fields (INPUT etc) in the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification

Perl

• www.perl.com - The Source for Perl
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• The University of Florida Perl Archive
• Perl Tutorial (Nik Silver)
• Perl FAQ Index
• Perl CGI Programming FAQ
• The Idiot's Guide to Solving Perl CGI Problems

CGI Programming Resources

• The CGI Resource Index
• Yahoo!-Page about CGI
• Matt's Script Archive
• Web Developer's Virtual Library: VL-WWW: CGI
• Web Developers Virtual Library: CGI: The Common Gateway for Server-side Processing
• Extropia.com (Open Source Web Application Programs)

Alternatives

• Server Side Includes in the Apache Server
• FastCGI
• The Netscape Server API

Couting the Number of Accesses to Web Pages

• WWW Homepage Access Counter and Clock

Security

• The World Wide Web Security FAQ
• WEB Security Sourcebook (Rubin/Geer/Ranum) (Links daraus)
• CGIWrap
• CGI Security
• LATRO - A Tool for Finding Insecure Perl CGI Installations
• CERT Coordination Center
• W3C Security Resources
• COAST Hotlist: Computer Security, Law and Privacy
• Security and Encryption (Yahoo!)
• Courses about Security and Cryptology
• Privacy.Net
• Article about Doubleclick.com
• Another Article about Doubleclick.Com
• JunkBusters.Com
• Cookie Central

Literature

I am currently building this section. Please send me references to books which you considered helpful.

• Daniel Menasce / Virgilio A. F. Almeida:
  Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Metrics, Models, and Methods
  Prentice Hall, 1998, 336 pp., ISBN 0-13-693822-1.

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

HTTP-Protocol

• W3C Documents on HTTP
• RFC 2068: HTTP/1.1
• RFC 1945: HTTP/1.0
• RFC 1945: HTTP/1.0
• Basic HTTP as defined in 1992
• Yahoo!-Page about HTTP-Protokoll
• PC Webopaedia: HTTP
• RFC 822: Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages
• RFC 1341: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
• HTTP Cookies (Preliminary Specification)
• Object Header Lines in HTTP (W3C, 1992)
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
• Kurose/Ross: Computer Networking (Online Book)

WWW-Server

• CERN httpd
• Apache HTTP Server Project
• Content Negotiation in the Apache Server
• Apache and Servlets
• Jigsaw Server
• Netscape Communications Server
• Microsoft Internet Information Server
• WebCompare: Comparative Information on Web Server Software
• Java-Server von SUN
• NetForge Web-Server
• Zeus Web-Server

Stefan Brass (sbrass@sis.pitt.edu), April 24, 1999

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