Shouldn't NI provide a way to serve a LabVIEW app on the web without the download runtime requirement for web clients?

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Actually, the licensing requirement is that you do have to purchase the "Internet toolkit" from NI. As to Dennis' suggestion about Mr. Travis' book, a search for CGI topics returns this link to his book's chapter on CGI (Ch9). This link is only marginally useful if you don't have the toolkit installed as it is making a lot of references to the examples installed with the toolkit. The book is currently out of print, and on Amazon it is pretty pricey (low price $90 US for a used one). It is one of the few LabVIEW books that I don't have, regretably. Returning to the licensing aspect, the LabVIEW stuff is all running on your end, the client only is running a web browser, which sends the appropriate CGI stuff, and gets back the result. LabVIEW can, with the toolkit vi's, post front panel images, etc. The big drawback to this technique is that a lot of us "test engineering-centric" LabVIEWers are not really savvy regarding the archane aspects of web development, but at least in my case it has been an interesting exercise, still in progress. I will confess that the Web side is being developed by a recent Cornell Univ grad, with input from the customer's art experts (they want it to look prettier than one of my instrument simulating front panels!)

This link leads to Jeff's site with a description of the book. I really will have to get one.