Re: Perl with Ajax issue

2019-08-13 Thread David Dorward
On 12 Aug 2019, at 19:45, Matt Zand wrote: use CGI; Do read [CGI: CGI.pm has been removed from the Perl core][1] Should I install Perl on the server or does it come with Apache package. Apache HTTPD does not include a Perl distribution although some third-party bundles include both Perl a

Re: cgi development environment

2012-09-19 Thread David Dorward
to do CGI programming in PHP (which you already know), but PSGI[1] is the flavour du jour for server side web programming with Perl. CGI is still a plausible option though. It has the benefit of simplicity (but isn't the most efficient option). [1] http://plackperl.org/ -- David D

Re: how to change apa...@mydomain.com to myn...@mydomain.com for emails sent out

2010-02-27 Thread David Dorward
perl that I use is: > open (MAILHANDLE,"| mail $address -s \"$subject\" -- -F MyName \n"); Use an abstraction layer: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Email::Sender http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Email::Sender::Manual::QuickStart has an example of what you want to do. -- D

Re: Logout from Apache

2009-03-19 Thread David Dorward
Naji, Khalid wrote: How can I logout via a perl-script from Apache? That depends on the authentication method used. Usually it just comes down to "Stop sending your authentication data or token with each request". -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscri

Re: Login code

2009-01-08 Thread David Dorward
: http://search.cpan.org/~hkclark/Catalyst-Manual-5.7016/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/Authentication.pod -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: embedding a CGI script in a HTML page?

2008-12-16 Thread David Dorward
data to server using the CGI interface 8. Server sends output HTML back to the browser Templates are used because it is easier to edit HTML in a template then it is to edit Perl that generates HTML. -- David Dorward -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For

Re: embedding a CGI script in a HTML page?

2008-12-16 Thread David Dorward
s easy to edit (and line 6 pulls a stylesheet in). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: embedding a CGI script in a HTML page?

2008-12-15 Thread David Dorward
ng it up) and replaces placeholders with the data (and has things to loop over arrays when you have repeated data). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: embedding a CGI script in a HTML page?

2008-12-14 Thread David Dorward
of the rest of the site. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: cgi and ssh

2008-09-23 Thread David Dorward
leges. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: sessions

2008-08-24 Thread David Dorward
JuneEarth wrote: > How to make CGI sessions to be shared among multi-webservers? Thanks. They have to use a shared data store for the session information. Using a database for that would be one approach. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> -- To un

Re: Simple Question... I hope

2008-06-04 Thread David Dorward
at bit of the code, so it is hard to say. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3 You also appear to be using (which is deprecated) where you should have a and your HTML is invalid due to a missing start tag for a paragraph. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http:

Re: .htaccess = .WWWaccess ?

2007-12-05 Thread David Dorward
ppear to be using an internal feature of Apache to perform HTTP Basic Authentication. While it is possible to perform HTTP Basic Authentication using a CGI script, that isn't what you are doing. You might have better luck on an Apache mailing list. -- David Dorward http://dorward.m

Re: first steps with mod_perl

2007-10-09 Thread David Dorward
ally a good thing: http:// www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml ... but I'll stick to Template-Toolkit -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Cant Display the image...

2007-09-06 Thread David Dorward
http://www.example.com/etc/passwd on practically any system. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Cant Display the image...

2007-09-06 Thread David Dorward
the image just a square box is displayed .. So look at the server logs to see what the server thinks is happening when the image is requested. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-ma

Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?

2007-04-24 Thread David Dorward
gin. You could also look at sending a content disposition of attachment. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?

2007-04-24 Thread David Dorward
ppear it the CGI.pm documentation ( http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.29/CGI.pm ). -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?

2007-04-23 Thread David Dorward
would I work these into my application? In what sense? There are plenty of things you /could/ do with PDF files in a CGI app. What do you actually want to do? -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

Re: how to force html4 output

2007-01-11 Thread David Dorward
emplate-Toolkit (or HTML::Template, or etc. etc. etc.). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Getting "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" strings in my pages :(

2007-01-09 Thread David Dorward
ond form loads I get "Content-Type: text/html; > charset=ISO-8859-1" > strings :( I haven't a clue why you would get that. You haven't provided enough of your script. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: About MVC framework

2006-12-20 Thread David Dorward
It gets a lot of buzz, at least.) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: stuffing the document header

2006-12-06 Thread David Dorward
g HTML from Perl. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Store and retrive binary content via perl-cgi

2006-11-16 Thread David Dorward
25/CGI.pm#CREATING_A_FILE_UPLOAD_FIELD http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.53/DBI.pm http://search.cpan.org/~danieltwc/DBIx-Class-0.07002/lib/DBIx/Class.pm -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: download java applications

2006-11-10 Thread David Dorward
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:05:48AM -0800, cool planet wrote: > How , it is possible to download java applications (jad/jar) via > perl - cgi ? It is no different from downloading any other resource. > can i see few examples ? http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/LWP.pm

Re: Headers("Location") in Perl??

2006-11-04 Thread David Dorward
to > goto another page in my system. In php I could use the > header("Location: www.blah.com") todo this, is there anything like that > in perl? You can just print them directly (since CGI expects headers followed by a blank line followed by message), or CGI.pm has a heade

Re: CGI Scripts and IE

2006-09-25 Thread David Dorward
testing for $q->param('foo') eq 'baz' and falling over IE's problem of sending "Bar" as the value. ... but you haven't provided anywhere near enough information about the problem to say for sure. Real URL? HTML? Perl? -- David Dorward

Re: What is the reason for different outputs for a cgi script run from a browser and run from the command line?

2006-06-20 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:25:33AM +0200, sfantar wrote: > Why are there differences between the output of the CGI mentioned below > which displays the content of $ENV{HOME} et $ENV{PATH}? The environment the webserver runs is different to the environment your shell runs. -- David D

Re: How to do a static variable that persists from page to page

2006-04-28 Thread David Dorward
program in > exactly the same way: $q->param{'param'}. Because CGI.pm is quite smart. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> "Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another." -- The Greatest Sho

Re: Data from web form

2006-04-20 Thread David Dorward
and various special characters that replace spaces and ', and such? Use the CGI module. perldoc CGI -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> "Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another." -- The Greate

Re: catching multiple values

2006-04-18 Thread David Dorward
parameter. If the parameter is multivalued (e.g. from multiple selections in a scrolling list), you can ask to receive an array. Otherwise the method will return a single value. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: redirect - CGI

2006-04-11 Thread David Dorward
int $cgi->redirect('http://www.yahoo.com'); -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: C++ query with mySQL

2006-04-09 Thread David Dorward
sing (which is unlikely). > And now when I am calling the script: > http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?cat=C_and_C++/Ad_Management However, the "+" character _does_ have special meaning in URLs - it represents a space character. You should URL encode the data you pull from the d

Re: FTP from my web ssite question

2006-03-14 Thread David Dorward
q(Download my artwork); ... Or, if you really want to use FTP: ... print q(Download ftp://example.com/myfile.zip";>my artwork); ... -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: referer throwing Internal Server Error

2006-03-13 Thread David Dorward
mple.net' http://www.example.com/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: using variable in param

2006-02-21 Thread David Dorward
ut then carry on and try to read the directory anyway? > foreach $elem (@interrogabili) > { > next if $elem =~ /^\..*/; > $elem = $home->param($elem); > } > > Why the $home->param($elem) line doesn't work? You don't define $home anywher

Re: Preventing unauthorized use of a CGI script

2006-02-07 Thread David Dorward
gh in violation of the HTTP spec - probably due to laziness in that overwriting the referer header with junk means that the software doesn't need to recalculate the content-length). If you are trying to stop spammers from using the form handler to send many messages, then no. Forging a referer

RE: CGI - HTML::TEMPLATE - How do it ?

2006-02-02 Thread David Dorward
re i place the subdomain of the value domain2.com ? { name => 'domain2.com', subdomain => 'www.domain2.com', }, -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> "Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."

Re: CGI - Email Forms

2005-12-08 Thread David Dorward
> use Mail::Sendmail; I'm not familiar with Mail::Sendmail, but I'm betting that it replaces the new line with an escape sequence. That has nothing to do with CGI.pm. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> "Anybody remotely i

Re: CGI - Email Forms

2005-12-08 Thread David Dorward
sage body). Using a prewritten, well-tested formmailer (such as NMS) is a good way to solve the problem. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: CGI - Email Forms

2005-12-07 Thread David Dorward
enter a "To, > CC, or BCC" address. Nor should you allow new lines ... $subject = "User entered data with\nBCC: spam victim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Filering a file

2005-12-05 Thread David Dorward
actual filtering?). Nothing in your question is CGI related, have you got this working as a command line script but are having trouble converting it to work under CGI? What code have you got so far? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Need help with making a Modules

2005-11-27 Thread David Dorward
e) Its possible, but I find that building a data structure that represents the page, then dropping it into a template (using Template-Toolkit of HTML::Template) makes things more manageable. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> "Anybody remotely interesting is mad,

Re: Turn off enctype

2005-11-07 Thread David Dorward
default of every browser I've ever tried it with. In fact, its the default type mandated by the HTML spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#form-content-type -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread David Dorward
$action eq 'search') ... or if (!defined $action) { ... } elsif ($action eq 'search') { ... } -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: hardcoded paths

2005-10-28 Thread David Dorward
atives. Relative URLs? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Combined and

2005-10-21 Thread David Dorward
best place to ask. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: XML [AntiVir checked]

2005-10-11 Thread David Dorward
n your specific needs. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: XHTML (was Re: One link to 2 frames)

2005-09-21 Thread David Dorward
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:18:37AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, David Dorward wrote: > > XHTML 1.1 is XHTML 1.0 Strict with Ruby added. > Really? Yes. > As in the scripting language Ruby? No. As in the Ruby Annotation language. http://www.w3.org/T

Re: One link to 2 frames

2005-09-21 Thread David Dorward
ion. This should be in addition to the link as JavaScript is optional, and meta refresh isn't standardised. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

XHTML (was Re: One link to 2 frames)

2005-09-21 Thread David Dorward
avour of the better supported HTML 4.01 (the Strict variant). Using CSS for layout, HTML (or XHTML) for semantics, relationships and structure, and JavaScript for behaviour is generally lumped under the umbrella heading of "Standards based design". -- David Dorward

Re: One link to 2 frames

2005-09-21 Thread David Dorward
pt. I've no idea why you would want that functionality though. It sounds like a band-aid solution to more serious underlying problem. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: One link to 2 frames

2005-09-20 Thread David Dorward
Link to a new frameset document. Neither really involve Perl or CGI. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-20 Thread David Dorward
in the context of email messages. Whoops, beg pardon. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html Section 19.5.1 -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-18 Thread David Dorward
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 17:46 -0500, Tony Frasketi wrote: > I'm trying to find a way to force a download dialogue box to come up > when the user clicks on a link on a web page http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me

Re: CGI.PM and IF statment....

2005-09-10 Thread David Dorward
want to test if they have selected the "Choose type message" option, then you need to check if $mt contains the data "0". The length of "0" is 1 (since it is one character long), so (length($mt) == 0) will always fail. if ( (!defined $mt) || ($mt eq '0&

Re: $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

2005-08-24 Thread David Dorward
quot;. > Is there another way to do it No -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: getstore and comments

2005-08-19 Thread David Dorward
n't say, but usually a module which takes a file can take either a filename or a filehandle. If your only intention is to read it, then you might be better off with get() instead of getstore(). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscr

Re: htaccess question

2005-08-12 Thread David Dorward
e HTTPS - and if you don't use HTTPS then any password you send it going to be clear. The difference here is that it is visible in the URL - and so exposed to the look-over-the-user's-shoulder-in-the-real-world attack. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me

Re: How do I make two different web pages come up from one CGI?

2005-08-04 Thread David Dorward
). You can use JavaScript to spawn a second window, although it might be blocked by popup blockers (the specifics of such a solution are rather off topic for this list though, so I'll suggest you look elsewhere if you want to go down that path). -- David Dorward

Re: Easy question

2005-07-19 Thread David Dorward
gt; The file is: $ENV{QUERY_STRING}. Use CGI.pm. Don't try to access CGI related enviroment variables directly. CGI.pm solves most of the problems you will run into already. > > > You should pay a visit to http://validator.w3.org/ -- David Dorward

Re: How to browse and select a remote file and then return the filename

2005-07-07 Thread David Dorward
ser granting permission will let them escape the sandbox. I wouldn't swear to it, I've done very little with applets. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to browse and select a remote file and then return the filename

2005-07-07 Thread David Dorward
ittedly, that's something like 90% of web > users, but Firefox, in particular, seems to be growing fast now. I seem to recall somebody managing to run ActiveX and IE under WINE :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: How to browse and select a remote file and then return the filename

2005-07-07 Thread David Dorward
he server doesn't have permission to access the user's file system over the Internet, and since that file system might be UNIX type, DOC type, or some other unknown type - it isn't a particularly useful feature to build into HTML. -- David Dorward

Re: HTML::Templates

2005-06-28 Thread David Dorward
the address bar and presses Enter, then the page is getting redirected to > login page asking the user to login again. I'm guessing you are passing everything as POST data? Use a session to track where the user is at any given point, and return them there if they revisit the page witho

Re: hide source code 2 - online game

2005-06-19 Thread David Dorward
ximum hacker > protection... comments? Err... "Ha!"? (Code is only secure as the person who writes it, I find it rather harder to write secure code in PHP, it doesn't come with such sane features as, for example, DBI bind variables.) -- David Dorward

Re: hide source code

2005-06-18 Thread David Dorward
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:43:58PM +0200, Glauco Magnelli wrote: > Excuse me, you're right. I want hide Perl code from > other users of the server. http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=423870 -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscr

Re: hide source code

2005-06-18 Thread David Dorward
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:51:51PM +0200, Glauco Magnelli wrote: > I would hide source code in my CGI Perl scripts. Which source code (Perl, HTML?)? From whom (other users of the server, visitors to the website?)? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me

Re: How do I change the font color of a checkbox group

2005-06-13 Thread David Dorward
or: red; } label { color: red; } ... should do the trick if the generated markup is good. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: How to save the state of a CGI script

2005-05-30 Thread David Dorward
u should consider that GET is supposed to be used when retrieving any information from the server and POST when you are changing something. (This has implications such as GET being bookmarkable, and POST causing most browsers to warn about resubmitting data). -- David Dorward

Re: How to use mime types for excel?

2005-05-15 Thread David Dorward
cel? application/msexcel is not a MIME type registered with the iana. > Incidently, I discovered that this mime type works and > excel automatically converts the HTML to excel tables. Excel is not the only piece of software to read Excel files. -- David Dorward

Re: How to use mime types for excel?

2005-05-14 Thread David Dorward
nt and doing The "Right" Thing). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Remote Desktop

2005-04-20 Thread David Dorward
o host it. Nothing to do with Perl or CGI though. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Variables in Modules

2005-04-13 Thread David Dorward
toring it on the server and asking the client to pass a token about (typically in a Cookie) to identify which set of data belongs to the user (this is usually done with sessions: http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/CGI-Session-3.95/Session.pm ) -- David Dorward

Re: Internal links with cgi

2005-03-26 Thread David Dorward
a request for an HTTP resource. It doesn't matter how the server goes about working out what content to send back, CGI, mod_perl, a static file, its all the same to the client. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: IE save, other shows image

2005-02-10 Thread David Dorward
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:30:59AM +0100, Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: > I have simple question, in my CGI script I have: > > print $query->header(-type=>'image/jpg'); This is wrong, the registered MIME type for JPEG images is imag

Re: Problem with script requiring valid referrer

2005-02-08 Thread David Dorward
a number of products out there which munge it (e.g. replacing http://foo with XXX:X). You can't depend on it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: Incorrect HTML Rendering?

2005-02-08 Thread David Dorward
out markup authoring questions being inappropriate for a Perl CGI list). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.pe

Re: embedding dynamic images in html output

2005-01-21 Thread David Dorward
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2397.html Browser support isn't very good, Internet Explorer doesn't support it (for instance). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: How to avoid accidental re-sending of POST data

2004-12-14 Thread David Dorward
The reason I am asking is the usabiliy problems associated with meta tag > redirects - they break the back button. HTTP redirects do not break the back button. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: cascading menus in perl??

2004-12-14 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 11:41 +1100, Cat wrote: > Been using a cascading menu written in javascript but would like to > convert this to perl so that on mouseover it drops down further > options to click through. If you want something on the client to change in response to an action then you either n

Re: Form PARAM is wierd (to me)

2004-12-12 Thread David Dorward
likely they are form encoded space characters. If you pay a visit to Google and search for something including spaces, you will probably see the same effect. I suspect you will find that when you get the value in your CGI script you will see them converted back to spaces. -- David Dorward

Re: Using a CSS file

2004-12-08 Thread David Dorward
#x27; contains only the CSS specs, nothing else. Is that as it > should be? Yes -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Printing from a Web Browser

2004-12-01 Thread David Dorward
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:51 +, David Dorward wrote: > By default a ed style sheet applies to screen media only. Whoops, I got that backwards. Its

Re: Printing from a Web Browser

2004-12-01 Thread David Dorward
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:05 -0600, Bill Stephenson wrote: > I just spent several hours formatting a web page template with a Style > Sheet only to find that when the browser sends the page to a printer it > apparently tosses the CSS info and renders it in the default HTML. Very > frustrating

Re: Address bar & redirects

2004-11-04 Thread David Dorward
referenced using. (Relevant background lost as I'm too busy to repair other people's top posting). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl

Re: Address bar & redirects

2004-11-04 Thread David Dorward
to > where the next redirect doesn't change the address bar. I'm really not clear what you are refering to by "It" or "the one" here. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a

Re: Address bar & redirects

2004-11-04 Thread David Dorward
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:49 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > However, before you go traipsing off to research - try using > target="_new" and have the NEW url open in a NEW window. or not, since: (a) New windows are a usability hazard (b) _new is not an allowed value for the target attribut

Re: was php & Perl, now reusable page elements

2004-11-03 Thread David Dorward
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:35 +1100, Cat wrote: > What made me work with php was it's ability to draw reusable page > elements like the header, menu, footer from another html page from a > fixed html page. > > Now I know that this can be done in perl when the pages are generated > by a script, When

Re: cgiemail - formquestion

2004-11-01 Thread David Dorward
nformation to the user, it is essential that you do not depend on any data generated from JavaScript to either exist or be accurate. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: Help with php & perl

2004-10-22 Thread David Dorward
ugh some things might be easier in one or the other. I suggest you pick a language and stick to it. (Perl is a good choice :D ) > the newbie at perl & php. If you are a PHP beginner AND a Perl beginner then its even more of a bad idea to try to use them both at the same time! -- David Dorw

Re: cgi errow 403 if accessed with lynx browser

2004-10-20 Thread David Dorward
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:51 -0400, Ingo Weiss wrote: > > That suggests you are trying to access /cgi-bin/ instead of > > /cgi-bin/someScript.cgi. Have you checked the HTML output of the > > previous script? Is the HTML valid? > > I checked it and it validates as XHTML 1.1 transitional That is ver

Re: cgi errow 403 if accessed with lynx browser

2004-10-20 Thread David Dorward
if you explicitly visit the URI of the second script? Does the problem occur with user agents other then lynx (if not, then it suggests the problem is with the HTML and lynx isn't managing to compensate for your error)? -- David Dorward http://dorward.m

Re: Reimplement CPAN as a Torrent?

2004-10-19 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 13:41 -0700, Bill Jones wrote: > Should CPAN be re-implemented as a Torrent? No, it shouldn't. (a) CPAN changes frequently (b) Most people don't need a complete CPAN archive > P2P is really hot and raging in some circles. Maybe torrents can benefit us in > legal ways? >

Re: getting files from the internet

2004-10-14 Thread David Dorward
remote_user/"); According to the perldoc for getstore, the second parameter should be a file, not a directory. You should probably be checking the response code that getstore returns as well. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Printing html document

2004-09-24 Thread David Dorward
ed to convert the LaTeX to something your printer can understand (maybe postscript)). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/>

Re: How to display a Text file using web browser under CGI

2004-08-13 Thread David Dorward
On 10 Aug 2004, at 21:52, Sun, Jian wrote: Could anybody help me to figure out How to display a Text file using the web browser in a CGI program? * output suitable http headers such as the content type * open the file * read the file * output the file Where are you having difficulty? -- David

Re: Posting hyperlink value

2004-06-15 Thread David Dorward
On 15 Jun 2004, at 14:24, David Dorward wrote: Bad form, following up by own post et al. However: $hostname = escapeHTML($hostname); Should be: $hostname = escapeHTML(escape($hostname)); as the data needs to be url encoded as well as html encoded. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me

Re: Posting hyperlink value

2004-06-15 Thread David Dorward
" not "$hostname". -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: use CGI qw(:standard);

2004-06-11 Thread David Dorward
submit forms without clicking on any submit button, so you need to have the form handler act in a sane way if $query->param('button_name') isn't set. Where can I find documentation on all the attributes of the components http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.h

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