[REBOL] persistent connection?
From: petr::krenzelok::trz::cz at: 24-May-2001 12:29
Hi,
I would like to ask few questions. For the first time I would like to
try small test with one of our customers ...
We, as a sales company, want to allow them some tracking of our
order-production-material dispatch prosess. It will be probably later
replaced by some general e-business solution in our company, but our
customer agreed to give it a try.
Scenario:
It is "simple" - our customer (partner) is a reseller. They want to
prepare information for their customers, what is the state of process of
the material they ordered. We can fill in most columns of the table for
them, but last two colums is the info they get from the logistic
company, once vessel arrives to port.
They asked us to prepare MS Excel .xsl files for them. But I can find it
a little bit contraproductive. We would have to output some info from
our databases to text file, and then they would have to manually open
each of the files and enter new info there.
So I thought it would be better to offer them some web form, where they
would fill-in the last columns, and after pressing some button e.g.,
some text file (in format being able to import into Excel) could be
generated and sent to them via email as an attachement, or website
regenerated, providing link to newly created file for them to download
...
Let's say, that in some initial phase, we don't need SSL. What would we
probably need is to provide some kind of authentisation. And also - what
aproach to choose? Do we need (an in such case how to do it in Rebol :-)
to keep connection persistent/alive (if it is the right word) to know
which user is logged in, to track his activity etc.? What is general
aproach in similar situations/requirements?
Thanks a lot,
-pekr-
