Hi,
I wonder if there is an easy way to have a program that uses the HTML browser as if it was a screen. Of course this is possible on the server, but now I like to do it an other way. To start any HTML page is easy. You write you html page in COBOL and with a start command, it is happening. But now if the user fills in anything in the html page and pushes a button, how can you get the information back? It doesn't matter to me if this is by reading any data, reading a cookie, doing some API talk with the browser, I don't care but I don't know enough of the browser environment to know how you can do this the best.
It is also not difficult to have a separate task on you machine, looking for data which is going to exists in some directory.
Any suggestions are most welcome. Does anybody has experience with this?
I wonder if there is an easy way to have a program that uses the HTML browser as if it was a screen. Of course this is possible on the server, but now I like to do it an other way. To start any HTML page is easy. You write you html page in COBOL and with a start command, it is happening. But now if the user fills in anything in the html page and pushes a button, how can you get the information back? It doesn't matter to me if this is by reading any data, reading a cookie, doing some API talk with the browser, I don't care but I don't know enough of the browser environment to know how you can do this the best.
It is also not difficult to have a separate task on you machine, looking for data which is going to exists in some directory.
Any suggestions are most welcome. Does anybody has experience with this?