Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "David" == David Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How do I get the IP address from a POST form. >> >> Let me make myself more clear: I have a form that uses POST, >> and I would like to get users' IP address for avoiding the >> same user to fake my pool's result. David> You can check

Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Rafael Cotta
> A user is not an IP address > A user is not an IP address > A user is not an IP address Imagine if my mom were called 200.224.110.105. LOL. Ok, good point, but my IP address approach will be enough, once my system doensn't need to be very accurate. The data processing w

Opens / create file if necessary

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Could you help My code's not doing everything With the code below I'm trying to do the following: -Open a file, creating it if necessary -Print a name in file every time someone presses "enter" -Print a new line -Seek to the begining of file without closing file -and print the file to STDOU

Split input on whitespaces - Another approach

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Hi all My code below does the following : - Reads from STDIN - Splits the input on whitespace - And prints the frequency of terms, with each term printed next to its frequency on STDOUT. I need another approach (code) to do the same things #!/usr/bin/perl -w my %freq; while( my $line = ){

Fw: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Ng Yuen Soo
Hi Randal, Nice of u to ring up an idea on the limitations of IP address. But what do u suggest to be used as a validation tool for the users? IP add + ramdom ports? thanks! - Original Message - From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Read in from STDIN

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Could anyone help I am having trouble reading in information from STDIN For coding see attached file Using a while loop I want to do the following: Read info in from STDIN Read in any number of name/value pairs, Read in names in pairs of two, and compute their sum. Choose the maximum of all thos

Why it prints twice?

2002-04-04 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I made the following script for parsing an html file and get the addresses, but they are printed twice instead of only once each one. Do you have any idea why? Here is the script: $file="C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache\\htdocs\\linux.htm"; open (IN, "$file"); while () { $line =

RE: Why it prints twice?

2002-04-04 Thread John Edwards
Try $file="C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache\\htdocs\\linux.htm"; open (IN, "$file") or die "Can't open $file: $!"; # ALWAYS CHECK OPENS while () { /.+<\/a>/; # This will act on the value of $_ which you are setting with while () print "$1"; # You can combine this into one line } c

Re: Taint Mode

2002-04-04 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Andrew, Please read the perlsec man page (perldoc perlsec) to learn about -T. If something still isn't clear, ask for some clarification. @INC is an array Perl uses to hold a list of directories which it will search for modules which are 'use'-ed or 'require'-ed. perl -wle 'print $_ . "\n"

Re: weird characters

2002-04-04 Thread Adam Bartley
in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pedro A Reche Gallardo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4/4/02 1:58 AM: > Hi, I have found that when I upload files from a Mac and Windows the > return character (maybe other characters too) are replaced by something > else. Does any one know how to avoid this? or alter

Internal server error

2002-04-04 Thread Adam Bartley
I'm having problems with the old "Internal Server Error" issue. I know that this is generally due to permissions. I have used chmod go+rx -R *, but no joy. The html now works but not the cgi. Thoughts? Thanks, Adam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Rafael" == Rafael Cotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rafael> Ok, good point, but my IP address approach will be enough, Rafael> once my system doensn't need to be very accurate. Except that it will be frustrating to the second employee at motorola.com who wants to vote after the first one

RE: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Scot Robnett
To continue Randal's point, you can have several hundred users accessing the Internet through a single gateway, even without the random address and proxy configuration that he describes. For instance, at my previous employer, we had everyone on a shared connection through an Internet appliance wit

Re: weird characters

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Kelly
On 4/4/02 3:00 AM, Adam Bartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Easy. Mac, Windows and Unix all use different endings to their lines. The > Mac uses *both* the PC and the Unix form. Easiest is to download TexEdit, > open your cgi files with it and use the quick convert option to turn it from > Mac t

RE: Read in from STDIN

2002-04-04 Thread David Gray
> Could anyone help I am having trouble reading in information > from STDIN > > For coding see attached file > > Using a while loop I want to do the following: > Read info in from STDIN > Read in any number of name/value pairs, > Read in names in pairs of two, and compute their sum. > Choose th

RE: Internal server error

2002-04-04 Thread David Gray
> I'm having problems with the old "Internal Server Error" > issue. I know that this is generally due to permissions. I > have used chmod go+rx -R *, but no joy. The html now works > but not the cgi. Thoughts? Try inserting the line use CGI::Carp (fatalsToBrowser); At the beginning of your s

Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Connie Chan
Why don't simply use cookie ? or when a page is open, redirect to : youscript.cgi?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx&whateverParams=whateverVar (you may use your way to encrypt ip & the ip address) Or if you want to avoid duplicate click on Submit, you can use javascript to disable the submit button when it click

RE: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread David Gray
> > "David" == David Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> How do I get the IP address from a POST form. > >> > >> Let me make myself more clear: I have a form that uses POST, > >> and I would like to get users' IP address for avoiding the > >> same user to fake my pool's result. > > Dav

RE: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Gargiullo
Make it easy on yourself and others. Set a cookie that expires(tomorrow, or whenever you'll have a new poll). Then only display the poll if the cookie doesn't exist, if it does...show them the results. For 90%+ of your visitors using cookies won't be a problem. If you check on IP you eliminate m

save button

2002-04-04 Thread Josiah Altschuler
Hi. Does anyone know how to make a save button on a web page so that when a client user clicks on it, a CGI program will send a text file to that client? Thanks, Josiah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weird characters - a program to display ASCII (0 - 127)

2002-04-04 Thread SirDouglasCook
Apple and IBM, Why can't we just get, A LONG. This isn't a conversion program although it is a start, please email me with the solution that you come up with. # chartab1.pl: A program to display character tables $Column = 1; $Out = ''; for ($i = 33; $i<=126; $i++) { $Out .= sprintf("%3s", $i

Dowload script

2002-04-04 Thread Matthew Harrison
I have written the following script to let people download files from a web browser without displaying the actual location, utilising a MySQL database. It works ok, except that it renames the file download.cgi (the name of my script). How can I make it keep the proper name?

Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Rafael Cotta
No problem. I'll place a big sign on my website's main page banning AOL users and Motorola employees... Rafael "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu na mensagem [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > "Rafael" == Rafael Cotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rafael> Ok, g

Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Mo Holkar / UKG
At 18:32 04/04/02, Randal wrote: >Voting on the net is always a joke. Like the man said. You can't prevent fraud, all you can do is choose what level of inconvenience you want would-be-fraudulent users to go to. But if the poll is over something that people aren't going to be too motivated ab

POSTing to a .html URL

2002-04-04 Thread David R. Baird
I have cgi script that is INCLUDEd in a web page: page.html: The script prints out a form. When the form's method attribute is GET ie , it works fine, but I want to process a password, so I need to POST to page.html When I do, I get a 405 error: The requested method POST is not allowed

Re: weird characters

2002-04-04 Thread Stephan Tinnemeyer
Pedro, for upload and/or download of text files you should use ftp in text mode. This will convert the line endings automatically. Perl scripts are text files. Therefore, perl scripts always should be up- and downloaded in text mode. Cheers Stephan -- Dipl.-Chem. Stephan Tinnemeyer Lindenallee

Re: save button

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Kelly
On 4/4/02 10:41 AM, Josiah Altschuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Josiah, > Hi. Does anyone know how to make a save button on a web page so that when a > client user clicks on it, a CGI program will send a text file to that > client? This has nothing to do with Perl. It's an HTML question.

Re: POSTing to a .html URL

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Kelly
On 4/4/02 9:16 AM, David R. Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi David, > I have cgi script that is INCLUDEd in a web page: > > page.html: > > > > > > > > The script prints out a form. When the form's method attribute is GET ie > I assume you mean 'method="get"' here. > , it works fin

Re: IP Address

2002-04-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "David" == David Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So again, I repeat: >> >> A user is not an IP address >> >> Get it through your head that using IP address for vote >> blockout is just ... WRONG. David> Message received, ZERO distortion. Are you saying, then, that it's David> imposs

Open Problem

2002-04-04 Thread Andrew Rosolino
Ok say I have a file called news.txt and it included this --- Andrew|Tuesday|Blueberry's Alex|Friday|Apple Alyssa|Wednesday|Strawberry --- Now, how can I have it so that when I call print qq~ @fruit ~;

Re: Why it prints twice?

2002-04-04 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, I've tried the following script as you suggested, but it keep printing twice each $1 variable. The script: #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -W print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; $file="C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache\\htdocs\\linux.htm"; open (IN, "$file") or die "Can't open $file: $!"; wh

Parsing an html file for getting the web addresses

2002-04-04 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I want to make a script to parse an .html file for getting the web addresses. I know what regexp I need to use but I have a problem reading the file. Some addresses are on 2 or more lines and I can't use the while () { and I think I need to use the read(FILE, $buffer, 1024) but I can't

Re: Open Problem

2002-04-04 Thread fliptop
Andrew Rosolino wrote: > Ok say I have a file called news.txt and it included > this > > --- > Andrew|Tuesday|Blueberry's > Alex|Friday|Apple > Alyssa|Wednesday|Strawberry > --- > > Now, how can I have it so that when I call > >

exec CGI versus include virtual

2002-04-04 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, Do you know what is the difference between the SSI statements include virtual ... and the address to the CGI script and exec CGI ... and the address of the CGI script? I've noticed that the second one it doesn't work. I think there are some problems with the server configuration, or some

Split input on whitespaces - Another approach - Co m e o n g u y s

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Hi all My code below does the following : - Reads from STDIN - Splits the input on whitespace - And prints the frequency of terms, with each term printed next to its frequency on STDOUT. I need another approach (code) to do the same things #!/usr/bin/perl -w my %freq; while( my $line = ){

Re: Split input on whitespaces - Another approach - Co m e o n g u y s

2002-04-04 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 15:01, Bruce Ambraal wrote: > Hi all > > My code below does the following : > - Reads from STDIN > - Splits the input on whitespace > - And prints the frequency of terms, with each term printed next to its frequency on >STDOUT. > > I need another approach (code) to do the

Read from STDIN

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Anyone's free to assist Part 1 is already done just need assistance for part (2-4) See below provided test data aswell 1)Read in any number of name/value pairs, 2)Read in names in pairs of two, and compute their sum. 3)Choose the maximum of all those pairs and print it. 4)At the same time ch

Re: Read from STDIN

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Thanx boris problem completely solved. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Split input on whitespace

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Why does my code not write the splitted words to STDOUT? #!/usr/bin/perl -w open (OUTPUT, ">ex92.out")||die; my %freq; while (my $line = ) { foreach my $w ( split( /\s+/, $line ) ){ if( exists $freq{$w} ){ $freq{$w}++; }else{ $freq{$w} = 1;

RE: Split input on whitespace

2002-04-04 Thread Timothy Johnson
Because you don't have any print statements to STDOUT? -Original Message- From: Bruce Ambraal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Split input on whitespace Why does my code not write the splitted words to