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Re: AppleScript CGI

You can change it to test.cgi after you save it. Just select it in the Finder, get info on it (command-i), and change the text in the "Name & Extension" section to from test.app or test.cgi.app to test.cgi and then close the window.

Secondly, you can only use AppleScript CGU if you are using Mac OS X Server. An AppleScript application needs to have events sent to it to do its work and Apache doesn't do that. The version of Apache that comes with Mac OS X Server has been modified so that it can send events, there is an intermediate program that takes information from the Apache program and sends events to your AppleScript application.

There is a workaround to do AppleScript CGI in the regular version of Mac OS X. There is a 3rd party program which will act as a go-between and will send events to your script so that it will work just like Mac OS X Server. That program is "acgi dispatcher" and it works pretty well. You can find it here:
<http://www.sentman.com/acgi/index.php>

- Ken

On Dec 28, 2003, at 2:53 PM, Nelson Byrne wrote:

On web page http://www.apple.com/applescript/guidebook/sbrt/pgs/sbrt.12.htm there is an example of linking an AppleScript application to a web page.

I tried doing exactly what they said, but had two problems.

1) The page says to save the AS with name "test.cgi", location "Sites", file format "application", Option Stay Open.

But that's not possible: when I try I get an error popup that says "You cannot save this document with extension '.cgi' at the end of the name. The required extension is '.app'. You can choose to use both, so that your file name ends in '.cgi.app'."

I chose both. This caused another problem in that the HTML (copied from the same page) calls for the name to be "test.cgi", so I changed the HTML to point to "test.cgi.app".

When I access the HTML from Safari I see a cute little gadget with a list that lets me pick one of a few colors. When I do so, though, I get a page that says

"Method Not Allowed

The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /~xxx/test.cgi.app. (where xxx is my ID)

So what am I doing wrong?

OS 10.3.2
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