Nope.
Can [you] please post some code?
Can you write a minimal script -- even just
#!perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\nTesting 1 2 3\n";
that does work on the server?
If so, that helps narrow down whether it's a server config issue, a
script issue, or what have you.
But so far there isn't enough information to provide more feedback.
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> Anyone could help me ?
Probably.
Are you examining the %ENV hash ?
It will have hints as to how the script was invoked.
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il. Maybe I
wasn't looking hard enough.
Demonstrate that you're trying to solve this yourself, and we will be
happy answering any questions that come up as you're learning.
Starting points: <http://learn.perl.org/>, O'Reilly books, Google.com.
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I'd have expected someone with a .gov address to be more cognizant of
such flagrant circumvention of copyright law... :-)
running is broken.
Either way, it sounds like a SQL Server admin config issue, not CGI.
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didn't really mean | | over ||, right ? :-)
I still think 'or' is clearer than '||' for this kind of thing, but if
PBP had a different rationale I can't remember what it was...
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Adedayo Adeyeye wrote:
> my $action = param('form_action');
Try setting a default value when 'form_action' isn't specified:
my $action = param('form_action') or '';
Or set it to 0, or 'do nothing' or und
a CGI question; your first priority here seems to be to sort
out exactly how this is all supposed to be interoperating in the first
place. Once you have a clearer sense of that, implementing the specific
components of the system should get easier for you.
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Is there a module which works in this way?
Yes: Expect.pm
How can I do?
Read the documentation, then write a program that uses Expect.pm.
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working together from there? Give it a try, then if you get stuck feel
free to come back to the list with specific questions and code.
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> XHTML 1.1 is XHTML 1.0 Strict with Ruby added.
Really?
As in the scripting language Ruby?
Weird...
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You may be able
to come with some kind of Javascript hack that works with both of them
as well as Internet Explorer, but have fun trying to maintain it.
What have you tried so far?
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s into smaller scripts -- just as when to
start breaking things into smaller subroutines -- is largely a matter of
personal preference, based on your own personal experience with writing
and maintaining your code over time.
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a *page* (though that file can be accessed
as a page, depending on where it is and how your web server is set up).
I'm not sure what you mean by "must be a file ... or ... normal variable
... or ... filehandle"; the way you write this implies that it's one, or
the other, or t
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across the internet in the clear for anyone to see.
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qq|2\n|,
qq|\n|;
}
Or something like that.
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not least because it is bundled with Perl itself,
so you shouldn't have to install anything extra to run it.
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, David Dorward wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:42:29AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
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> > > It isn't possible. For that sort of thing you'll need something like
> > > an ActiveX control with permission to read the user's file system
d you get the result you need by some way other
than figuring out remote file paths ?
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Bill Stephenson wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
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> > No, but it can be done trivially in software.
> >
> > $ lynx -dump -source http://devers.homeip.net:8080/frametest.html
> >
thing exotic on the clickthrough target to
obscure things, because the frameset is already providing, for free, as
much obfuscation as you can reasonably expect to be possible. So, no
need to force all data through as POST data, no Apache trickery, etc.
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$diskKey) ) {
...
}
foreach $subKey ( $diskKey->SubKeyNames ) {
...
}
$diskKey->AllowSave( 1 );
$diskKey->RegSaveKey( "C:/TEMP/DiskReg", [] );
I'm not a Windows programmer, so I can't vouch for how well this stuff
ill work just fine.
> Thank you.
You're welcome.
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probably won't get very far... :-)
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T_NTOA('STR')
I assume you're describing things like gethostbyaddr / gethostbyname /
getnetbyaddr / getnetbyname / etc.
All of these have perldoc -- `perldoc of gethostbyaddr` etc -- as well
as sections in all the main Perl books: _Programming Perl_, _Perl in a
Nutshell_, _Perl Co
way is this a CGI question?
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return just the data you want,
rather than return too much and throw some of it away in your code.
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directMatch /pages?id=(.*) http://mysite.com/pages/$1
Won't that work?
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This may be an easier approach to the problem...
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thon's main offering) or the many suites
that are now available with PHP.
I'd be delighted to be corrected about this, but it seems like most of
the people that are working on such frameworks are using other languages
these days.
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he pages and the client -- both Apache and Squid can do this,
among others.
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end up having to constantly adjust
it to handle all the special cases that come up over time.
If you just parse it at the outset, such as with HTML::SimpleLinkExtor,
then the code should be simple, robust, and useful for a long time.
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ers $URL`, or an
equivalent such as the command line tools that are installed [on Unix
systems] with Bundle::LWP from CPAN. In this way, you should be able to
see pretty clearly where things are breaking down, and you won't be
distracted by what the browser is doing in the background, because it
Don't bother; use WebDAV and let them mount a web folder as
a local directory tree in Windows Explorer or Mac Finder:
<http://www.webdav.org/>
<http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/>
* If you're hell-bent on writing something, what have you got so far?
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> Err... how do I clear the browser's cache?
That depends on what browser you're using!
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Adamiec, Larry wrote:
> This link may be of help to some people.
>
> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/ur0411l/
I bet it would go over even better on the CGI list :-)
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gt; If you like them - you should buy them!
If you like them - you shouldn't pirate them!
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ore( $URL, "/var/www/html/$remote_user/$file );
will work better...
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ral approach can be applied to lots of situations, including
the one that you're describing.
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ash{$key};
}
etc.
Or just
foreach $key ( sort keys %hash ) {
my $value = $hash{$key};
}
to skip the temp variable.
Make sense ?
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downloaded from:
<http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml>
If the formmail you are using is not this one, it probably should be.
Download that one and read over the documentation it provides, then try
to install it and let us know -- in some detail -- if anything breaks.
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<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/12/04/mod_perl.html>
<http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Preloading_Registry_Scripts_at_Server_Startup>
And for a Apache 2 / mod_perl 1.99 overview:
<http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/intro/start_fast.html#Registry_Scripts&
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Chris Devers wrote:
> > if you need a speed boost then the best strategies are to [a] use a
> > smaller subset of CGI.pm,
>
> Does that really make a lot of difference?
That was my understanding, but I admit I haven't
n problems? Or is this somehow taken care
> of?
Yes, it's an issue. That's what `flock` is for.
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keep using the OOP style, I think I will
> start using the functional one... (hoping that it will work faster).
I don't *think* there should be a whole lot of speed difference here,
though of course the way to know that for sure is to benchmark them.
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<http://www.as220.org/shawn/PGP/>
There are some others, but I::M is the big one by far...
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> Chris Devers wrote:
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> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote:
> >
> > > However, there is a reader's review of the first edition that seems to
> > > ring true and, moreover, is not complimentary.
>
> (main guide)
<http://bulknews.net/lib/mod_perl_guide/help.html> (supplements)
These give a decent overview of the documentation available. If you
really want to learn this stuff well, mod_perl is the way to go.
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like the site still holds up
reasonably well on every browser I've wanted to try it on -- basically
anything newer than Netscape 4.7. That's good enough for me
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On a modern browser, stylesheets should be much easier to control than
tables ever were, and will give much better results...
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nerate_and_stash( $stash_img, $CGI );
serve_image( $image );
exit 0;
Fleshing out these subroutines is an exercise for the reader :-)
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et you around the problem of
the images sometimes not showing up -- or so I would hope...
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re-prepared image before reverting to making a new one. (This
amounts to caching again, but in a smarter way than the other case,
where it may be easier to just put Squid in front of your server...)
Make sense?
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ou didn't like it over time, you
can always switch to something else.
The best thing to do is just start making your site, using a template
module like HTML::Template to generate the XHTML + CSS layout, and let
the list know if you start having specific problems.
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t did in the cgi-bin directory. if
so, then try setting the name to index.pl, and see if you urls such as
http;//yoursite/project/index.pl
and
http;//yoursite/project/
end up being the same thing. They should be, but test it.
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ow is going to be phased out. (Well ok
probably not phased out, but new tools will eventually stop supporting
it, so you'll have to use old browswers (etc) to view old documents.)
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
I can't see what this has to do with HTML parsing.
The immediate problem has nothing to do with parsing, but it seemed like
some of the suggestions given were starting to go in that direction.
Unless I was just misreading things...
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HTML parsing is a real bear to get right. For a limited problem like
this, mucking around with regular expressions isn't so bad, but if you
really want to do it right, it's worth pulling in a parsing engine like
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other template frameworks. If you actually,
literally need ASP support, then it is your best bet, but if not you'll
probably find much more mature software and much broader support if you
decide to go with something like Mason or Template Toolkit instead.
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but some people like it.
There are others, but these are the big ones.
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If Outlook is doing something funny that you need to replicate or
induce, then maybe the best approach would be to get Perl to drive
Outlook to send your mail by using COM or OLE or something, but I don't
know enough about Windows/Perl programming to walk you through this.
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for the common case -- CGI scripts & mod_perl modules -- something like
CGI.pm should do the job just fine.
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by David Rakoff
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environment variables will be seen by any script that runs on that
server.
How is this supposed to scale for a system that is going to have lots of
users? Update the environment variables with each request? That doesn't
sound very reliable to me...
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get around this is
probably to use mod_perl instead of regular CGI scripts, and then turn
on Apache::DBI for database connection pooling. This can help a lot.
Does this help ? More questions ?
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er the dust has (apparently) settled, I'm still not
keeping all the names straight :-)
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np: 'Sesame Street Theme Song (in German / auf Deutsch: "Sesamstrasse")'
by Sesame Street
from 'Ses
use of Access (or a
similar desktop database) is an inappropriate kludge that should not be
used for anything meant to be taken seriously.
From what I've heard, Microsoft makes it very easy for people to upgrade
databases from Access to SQL Server; you should please consider this.
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Please show the list what you have so far, and what you're getting stuck
on, including any relevant Perl code and whatever information you have
about this .exe file. With that available, we might be able to help.
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
How do I get the browser's IP address in a server side cgi perl script?
It's in $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}.
Poke at your %ENV hash for other possibly useful values.
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, hcohen2 wrote:
Chris Devers wrote:
You're saying that Apache is responding to requests, but you want it
to respond to your CGI script. You need to configure it to do this,
and you need to give it a URL that correctly translates into the
location of a file that Apache
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf # (or wherever it is)
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np: 'Bright Sunny South'
by Alison Krauss & Union Station
from 'New Favorite'
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won't work anywhere else) and some other IP
address which can be reached on the local network & possibly anywhere.
So -- you're not using your server's "real" address, and nothing else
you've done is going to get around this :-)
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Another possiblity: you may need to run this with root priviliges, either
by prefixing that line or the whole script with 'sudo' (and using your
account password when prompted) or by placing this in root's crontab.
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