> You wrote you needed a C-program, what's wrong with making it all
> webbased.
The problem (not really a problem but the issue) is that the client end is
a computer, not a human, so you'd still need some program to talk to the
web interface. Since we don't have the luxury of something like Perl and
it's LWP libraries (that make it easy to write web clients), we'd still
need to write a web client in C. Certainly quite possible, but not my
favorite choice (see my other responses for why I think in general a web
app might not be best).
> Then your webserver could have two NICs, with the database
> access on the internal one.
Not too worried about this, we have a very well established network here
behind two firewalls, and I can drop the Pg database in front of either, in
the middle, or behind both as I see fit. Even better than two NICs in a
box. =)
> It also has the advantage, that use need only 1 account in the
> database, the rest is just business logic.
Yeah, this is an attractive option. We can do the same thing by placing a
firewall in front instead of a web server.
My fault, though, for not specifying the parameters of my application more
clearly.
Thanks!
-Fran