Many kinds of software enable you to communicate with other people over the Internet. You’ve seen a few already (for example, the Usenet groups in Chapter 23 and the chat server in Chapter 24). In this chapter, you will implement another such system: a web-based discussion forum.
What’s the Problem?
In this project, you create a simple system for posting and responding to messages via the Web. This has utility in itself, as a discussion forum. One famous example of such a forum is Slashdot (http://slashdot.org). The system developed in this chapter is quite simple, but the basic functionality is there, and it should be capable of handling quite ...
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