I've decided to write a Website in C++. I am sick of dealing with languages that layer on top of other languages, so I just want to write it in C++. I know about CGI++, but I was wondering if there were any other tools or methods used for writing a site in C++.
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Jump to PostOther than for the pure challenge of doing it, I see no reason to write a web site in c++ since there are other markup languages more suited for the task. I don't write web sites but my guess is that not a single one of them were written in …
Jump to PostYou could certainly write a C++ program that could send the following output to stdout:
<html> <body>Hello World</body> </html>
but I imagine you'd have to stick it in the cgi-bin folder and type
http://somesite/cgi-bin/helloword.cgi
in the browser. If you stick it in …
Jump to PostTwo C libraries that may be useful to you (libcurl and libxml). Most of the cgi programs I write are in C and I use these a lot. The website itself is written in Flex, with some PHP in there, but the CGIs are in C. These two libraries help …
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