I have an existing database-driven web page written in Pearl with SQL
and running on a Unix system with Apache server.  I would like to
rewrite it in Delphi to run under Windows NT and MS Internet Information
Server.  I have the original sources in Pearl.

What good/bad experiences have others had in doing web pages in Delphi?

I would like to write it to run as a DLL, to maximize response
performance.  The DLL would have to do an extensive initialization upon
first being loaded, and build several large memory arrays.  From then
on, it would respond to each incoming http request, do reads only of an
SQL data base (probably Interbase), and build HTML output to post to
IIS.

Is this a feasible and reasonable way to do it?

I have Delphi Professional V3 right now.  I have so far written only a
few simple programs in Delphi, just to get a feel for it. Would this
particular application benefit from upgrading to V4?

Hmm.  Not a single reply.
Does that mean no one builds web apps with Delphi, or
does it mean that it is so easy and obvious that it's not worth a reply?

It just means that those that do this probably missed your message.
From the title of your post, it seems like you should have posted in
the borland.public.internet newsgroup.  I don't see your previous
posts so I don't know what you were asking.

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I have written CGI programs in Delphi, if you can take that for an
answer. They are normal console applications.

Hey Bob:

Did you check out the delphi.internet newsgroup?

Lots of stuff there.
Also, I have written an FTP application in Delphi 4 with the NMFTP
component.  It works just fine and was very easy to write.  It periodically
goes out on the web, downloads a bunch of text files with weather
information in it from the NOAA web site and then parses the information in
them and then stuffs it into an Access '97 database.  Finally, it does some
SQL queries on the data to search for certain types of weather.  If it finds
the weather conditions we are searching for, it calls up a member of our
research team and gives him a voice message as to where the weather
conditions are (existing or forecast).

What exactly are you looking for?

Sid