CGI in Java - Legacy but interesting (for educational purposes)

ppign

I folks: I know that CGI is jurassic and before all of you call me lunatic, I must say that this question is only for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES (in real cases I use JSP). I'm trying to code a "Hello World" CGI in Java, and I'm unsucessful. So I try the same job in C#. Both programs (C# and Java) are totally equal (line by line). The C# works and the Java don't. Here's the code in C#:

namespace CGI_CSharp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Content-Type: text/html\n"); // the extra "\n" is needed
Console.WriteLine("<html>");
Console.WriteLine("<head>");
Console.WriteLine("<title>CGI - C#</title>");
Console.WriteLine("</head>");
Console.WriteLine("<body>");

        Console.WriteLine("<h1>Hello World !</h1>");

        Console.WriteLine("</body>");
        Console.WriteLine("<html>");
    }
}

}

In the browser URL I wrote: http://localhost/CGI\_CSharp.exe and BINGO! The C# code WORKS ! Now the same code in Java:

public class CGI_Java
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println ("Content-Type: text/html\n");
System.out.println ("<html>");
System.out.println ("<head>");
System.out.println ("<title>CGI - Java</title>");
System.out.println ("</head>");
System.out.println ("<body>");

    System.out.println ("<h1>Hello World !</h1>");

    System.out.println ("</body>");
    System.out.println ("</html>");
}

}

Now I've tried the URL: http://localhost/java.exe CGI\_Java (as you know, the %20 is the space => (http://localhost/java.exe CGI_Java) I get: HTTP 404.0 - Not Found So, I try again, now with a batch file (CGI_Java.bat) with a single line of text: java.exe CGI_Java (content of the CGI_Java.bat) And now, I try the URL: http://localhost&/CGI_Java.bat Now the browser shows: C:\inetpub\wwwroot>java.exe CGI_Java This is the prompt followed by the command I wrote in the batch file. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

Trak4Net

With the batch file maybe redirecting the output? http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_redirection.php[^] Interesting topic, I imagine you are getting the 404 because you are expecting the CGI_Java to be passed as a command line argument. I don't think the browser works that way. Have never tried anything like this but wonder if any querystring variables would be passed as command args like... http://localhost/java.exe?CGI\_Java :~ ???