How it Works?

The Superbase Internet Server services requests from your web server using the Windows Common Gateway Interface (CGI-WIN). This is a four step process:

1. The web server receives a request from a browser that references the SBHTML.EXE program file.

2. The web server executes the SBHTML.EXE program. The program connects to Superbase (via DDE) and in turn passes in the name of a Superbase program and a procedure to execute.

3. The Superbase Internet Server loads the program and calls the sub-routine. The routine performs the necessary actions (posting or retrieving of data) and outputs the appropriate HTML page to an output file.

4. The web server sends the HTML page back to the web browser.

When using the Superbase Internet Server, the process is greatly simplified. All that is required is the code to process users requests.