How do I convert an EXE application (in Windows) to run from a WEB Server?

Question

The EXE app currently runs under Windows XP,
(and I have the source in C lang).

Objective:
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Make this Win EXE application accessible to Users via a web-browser with the same functionality.

That is...without having to re-code everything
in ASP/ PHP/Javascript .
(A little recoding would be OK...).
Would CGI be involved?
Can you include a simple "Hello World" example?

Any experts out there? Suggestions/pointers welcome!
Thks!!

Answer 1

To run under CGI you need to modify the program to get its input from the environment and print its output to the web browser in HTML. If your user needs multiple interactions, you need to provide some way of maintaining state, as each CGI call runs a new process. Or you could run it as a background application with a command-line interface and write a simple CGI script to handle the interface chores. There are more integrated ways to do things, but they're beyond me (and involve more coding).

Answer 2

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