It is strongly recommended that you use
the Windows CGI interface with Visual Basic for your
back end development! The Windows CGI interface does automatic decoding of
forms data.The documentation supplied with httpd contains a complete guide to developing CGI scripts. Also included is a sample Visual Basic program that contains a "shell" module containing all of the code needed to set up the CGI environment inside a VB back-end. Httpd supports the POST method of HTTP, so you can support the "forms" feature of Mosaic and other browsers. Finally, the DOS CGI interface can be reconfigured in a variety of ways that permit using things like QBASIC, perl, Tcl or Icon instead of a DOS shell.