[V4RB] Writing a simple server

[jda]

Hi all.

I'm thinking of creating a simple server using RB and V4RB to serve 
bibliographic data over the web. I've been playing with sockets and 
HTTP, and I think it will be rather easy to implement. Basically, 
I'll set up a "listener" and, when it receives a query, fetch the 
data, organize it, and send it back to the browser. FWIW, I'll 
probably wait for RB 5 to actually release this because the new 
ServerSocket class is a lot more robust than the Socket control 
offered in earlier versions.

I'm wondering if anyone else on this list has done something like 
this, and if so what their experience was. What are the problems that 
I should be anticipating (like multithreading -- I'm happy to have 
queries queued, because I don't intend this to be an 
industrial-strength solution, but even so might there be problems 
with concurrent hits)? Is there a limit on the amount of data one can 
return?

Thanks,

Jon