Re: [Javascript enquiry]

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:01:08 +1100
To:	samuel.varghese(at)bt.com, hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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At 12:40 pm 21/01/00 +0000, samuel.varghese(at)bt.com wrote:
>I have heard of Cold Fusion, ASP, CGI etc., but I would like to know if the
>above requirements can be accomplished purely by JavaScript?

By "Javascript" I assume you mean client-side programming.  The answer is
"NO" - security prevents clients modifying the server in that way.

What you want is server-side processing - which could be either ASP, Cold
Fusion, PHP, or PERL/CGI.

Chris

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