WebDataServer

Transforming Data Holders into Data Publishers

You've got data in tab delimited text files. You want it on the web. But you don't want the expense and hassle of buying a database package and loading your data into it. What to do? Use WebDataServer! With WebDataServer you'll be able to easily, quickly and inexpensively make the data in your delimited text files available to people on the World Wide Web or your local IntraNet.

Latest version is 1.4.1

Version 1.4.1 adds record level security. By including a username field in your data you can limit access to individual records to authorized users.

Version 1.4.1 adds record level security
Version 1.3.1 fixes bugs
Version 1.3 adds required fields and continues to improve performance
Version 1.2 adds 68k support and significantly improves performance
Version 1.1 adds support for numeric fields/selection criteria

WebDataServer is a Macintosh cgi application which works with MacHTTP, WebStar and other Macintosh web servers. WebDataServer enables you to quickly and easily make data stored in industry standard tab delimited and comma delimited files available to your users. With WebDataServer your users will be able to search your data fields using combinations of text and numeric comparisons and select sort fields and formats for the results. When WebDataServer receives the query, it finds the matching rows and dynamically generates HTML pages. The format of the returned HTML is based on dynamically selectable templates you set up (to get you started quickly, sample templates are included). And WebDataServer can serve multiple data files simultaneously. And it's written in C++, so yes it is fast.

WebDataServer is shareware. You can download it and try it out for free. However while trying it you'll see an annoying 'please pay' message in the data returned. If you like the product, pay for it and I'll tell you how to get rid of the annoying message. The price for WebDataServer is now just $39. $19 for academic use. The payee info is in the documentation.

The download includes the application, documentation and demos.

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A note to users of WebDataServer: There is a misconception that the data files must be in the same folder as the WebDataServer application. This is not true. Only the config file must be in the same folder as WebDataServer. Within the config files you can specify the locations of data files anywhere in your file hierarchy using Macintosh path names (remember Mac paths use ':' rather than '/').