Communicating with a non-BYOND server.

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Feb 18 2011, 5:36 pm (Edited on Feb 18 2011, 5:55 pm)
I'm wondering - is this possible?

I can think of a few slower ways around this, but my reason for asking this in the first place is speed(and client-handling).

Edit: Changed the title. The original wasn't a problem.
Feb 19 2011, 12:17 am
Depends on the type of server.
world.Export should allow you to communicate with HTTP servers, there's a library somewhere for MySQL servers, for others you'll probably need to write a DLL.
Feb 19 2011, 5:06 am
Yes, there are multiple ways:
World/Export
PHP functions (using the browser)
dantom.db (for MySQL)
Feb 19 2011, 5:34 am
In response to Immibis
To add to that advice, you make the other server expose an HTTP front merely for communication if that is easier than going straight from byond to the other server.
Feb 19 2011, 2:56 pm
In response to Loduwijk
Thanks for the advice. For some reason, never thought of an HTTP front end.

Btw, to those that mentioned SQL - SQL was my 'secondary'. Was going to use an SQL database and indirectly manipulate data with the operation server.