I want to make a small HTTP chat website working with a Delphi 7 web Server. I have no idea how to approach this. I have searched on the internet for hours but I found nothing helpful. I have setup a basic Delphi 7 web server. The reason I want to use Delphi is because I'm most familiar with it and I want to use HTTP because that's the only language I know to how use in a browser. Could I do this and is there any tutorial on how to do this somewhere on the internet? I wanted to make a chat server because it seemed like a challenge. The help is greatly appreciated.
As much as I love Delphi, I would strongly recommend learning another language for this task.
PHP is very easy to get into. All you need is notepad to type a file with this:
<?php echo "hello" ?>
And you have a working web application that shows hello. With delphi it gets more complicated. You either need to provide your own web server, or you need to create a .dll that plugs into your browser, and you'll need a lot more code to get something simple.
PHP also has good mysql support built in, which you'll probably need if you're going to create a chat page, because it can easily deal with multi-user issues for you.
I know this doesn't answer your question about how to do this with Delphi, but please take this advice.