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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 11:48:34 GMT
From: Yves Benigot (benigot-y@sap.ap-hop-paris.fr)

SQL integration Wanted

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This text is not directly on the topic of objects. 
But it is connected to it because there is a need for integrating
HTTP clients to RDBMSes and Objects is an answer.
This proposes a specific solution for SQL integration.

We are currently studying the use of HTML/HTTP as a substitute
for conventionnal RDBMS SQL client/server systems.
This is an example of "Intranet" application.

Alas the HTTP protocol is stateless and page oriented so that
an interaction between the Web Browser and the HTTP server
for retrieving or updating the database in SQL is not possible except at
the end of the transaction via a CGI program. This is too limited.

I strongly fee that something should be done towards integrating 
standard SQL into HTTP, perhaps via a new MIME type
let us say "DBMS/SQL". In that way the browser could
use PUT for submitting SQL statements, and the server could
 send the result as say "DBMS/SQL-Result-Table".