image manipulation (scaling)

2004-09-17 Thread Ingo Weiss
Hi all, I need have my CGI scale images on the server, and I was wondering whether there is a "standard" perl module that can do that (and possibly other image manipulation tasks). I am looking for one that: - is easy to understand and use - is likely to be already installed on the server or so w

simultanious access

2004-09-17 Thread Ingo Weiss
Hi, I was wondering: When writing CGIs that write to a data fle, do we need to be concerned about the case where one CGI instance opens, modifies and changes a data file while it's still open from another CGI instance, creating version problems? Or is this somehow taken care of? Ingo -- To unsub

cgi errow 403 if accessed with lynx browser

2004-10-19 Thread Ingo Weiss
Hi all, I am usin the lynx browser to test my cgi's (in order to get a rough sense of the accessiblity of my pages). I can access a URL OK, but if I follow a any link (that points to another CGI) in lynx, I am getting the following error: Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/

How to avoid accidental re-sending of POST data

2004-12-01 Thread Ingo Weiss
easy way to make it impossible. Thanks for any hint! Ingo Weiss -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

How to avoid accidental re-sending of POST data

2004-12-02 Thread Ingo Weiss
easy way to make it impossible. Thanks for any hint! Ingo Weiss -- 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 avoid accidental re-sending of POST data

2004-12-13 Thread Ingo Weiss
> redirect (302 response) after handling the form That's interesting! Thanks! I took a look at the documentation: print $query->redirect('http://somewhere.else/in/the/world'); Is this how it is done? In the above example, the document that was originally requested does never make it to the cli

What could prevent a cookie from being set?

2004-05-07 Thread Ingo Weiss
Hi all, I am using CGI to set a cookie: # create cookie: $packed_cookie = $query->cookie(-NAME => "cookieName", -VALUE => "cookieValue", -EXPIRES => "+10m" ); # set cookie: print $

Re: What could prevent a cookie from being set?

2004-05-07 Thread Ingo Weiss
Thanks! I used the terminal to ssh into my server and run the script from the command line. This is the output: " Set-Cookie: ART635=iweiss; path=/; expires=Fri, 07-May-2004 15:28:27 GMT Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 15:18:27 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1