From: Brad Mr <oshybrid@...>
Date: 2009-08-24T23:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML posting to ruby script?

7stud -- wrote:
> Brad Mr wrote:
>> Ok new to Ruby.
>> 
>> I have an HTML form that I want a user to enter data, and when the
>> SUBMIT button is pressed, the HTML POST (with the data) goes to a Ruby
>> script to process the data (no web server running) into ruby variables
>> to be used in other Ruby Scripts.
>> 
>> Again this is meant to be able to run offline 
> 
> Web pages have no access to the local file system--for security reasons. 
> You wouldn't be able to browser the internet if a web page could 
> suddenly flood every folder on your computer with thousands of 
> advertisements.  And you say that the web browser is offline, which 
> means the web page can't communicate with a server.  So the question is: 
> where is the ruby script located?   You see the dilemma?

If that is true then how does Javascript work if you make all function 
definition in a single seperate *.js file while, calls to its function, 
and you don't need a web server for that?
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