Re: Problem w/ CGI and PWS
Re: Problem w/ CGI and PWS
- Subject: Re: Problem w/ CGI and PWS
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:26:46 EDT
Michael,
This is a known problem (first reported by me) with AS 1.6, which has been
verified by Chris Nebel and reported by others. Let's all pray it gets fixed
soon (or fixed, period.), because I rely heavily on my AppleScript CGIs (as
in, I starve if they do not work).
The workarounds are to
1) Remove the idle handler from the script and let it run continuously, or
2) Go back to the Applescript 1.5.5 extension (I can send you a copy if you
need it).
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
Why is 6.08 on an SE ten times snappier than OSX on a Pismo 500?
In a message dated 4/27/01 9:12:33 PM, Michael T. Davis wrote:
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I have started having a problem with a CGI I threw together a while
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back, used in conjunction with Personal Web Sharing (PWS). I believe the
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trouble started with an upgrade from Mac OS 9.0.4 to 9.1 or (more probable)
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with an upgrade to AppleScript 1.6. The idea behind the CGI is to notify me
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whenever someone accesses an image on the Web server. I have dubbed the CGI
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"Sounder". Documentation on usage is included as comments within the code.
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Here's a URL to the source code:
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http://www.er6.eng.ohio-state.edu/~davism/Sounder.txt
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Save the resulting page as text, then open it in Script Editor. Certain
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characters won't look right within the browser (e.g. not-equal-to sign, line
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continuation, etc.), but should properly translate once the text file is
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opened in Script Editor (or any editor which properly displays these special
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characters).
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The behavior I'm currently encountering is that, when invoked via
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PWS, the CGI isn't handled as a CGI, but is called by PWS as if it was run.
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If I replace "quit" in the run handler with "set checkTime to current date",
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then visit a page that invokes Sounder within the prescribed idle time (five
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minutes), the CGI handler _is_ called when I (re)visit a page which includes
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an invocation to Sounder. That is, when I visit a page which includes the
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following:
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<IMG SRC="http://my-server/cgi-bin/Sounder.acgi$/image.jpg?Hey"; ...>
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rather than invoking Sounder to play the "Hey" sound, then redirecting to
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http://my-server/image.jpg, it's just running Sounder; if I then reload the
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same page (from the server, not from cache), Sounder is invoked as I would
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expect, and fires off the "Hey" sound before redirecting to the actual image.
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What gives? Am I doing something that's not supported, which was
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recently broken with the upgrade of the OS and/or AS, or is something within
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the system broken?
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Thanks,
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Mike
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Michael T. Davis | Systems Specialist: ChE,MSE
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E-mail: email@hidden | Departmental
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