FineLine WebLink allows standard web page forms and programs to quickly and easily exchange information directly with your UNIX server without requiring any additional web software on UNIX.  You specify what UNIX command to run for each type of incoming data and WebLink can merge the output of your command with a web page template to return customized web pages to the user.  

Since WebLink can accept incoming XML and convert it to fixed-length or delimited text formats, WebLink can also be used to accept XML data from other systems for processing by the UNIX server.

Two license versions are available:  Standard and Deluxe.  The Deluxe version adds support for maintaining a separate session for each web user (usually accomplished through a login form), automatic paging of large reports without intervention by the UNIX database, and "data persistence" which eliminates the need to manually maintain values that carry from page to page (ex: customer number, company information, etc.) - greatly simplifying the work required by the web page designer and UNIX programmer.

How it works

By making only a few simple modifications to a standard web page form, the data entered in the fields of the form can be transferred directly to your UNIX server and processed by any UNIX command you desire to handle that particular form's data and return the results.