Re: cgi weirdness when going past OS8.6
Re: cgi weirdness when going past OS8.6
- Subject: Re: cgi weirdness when going past OS8.6
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:44:05 EDT
Rick,
Why use 9.2.1 and AS 1.4? I recommend 9.1 + 1.5.5 for CGIs (and hopefully AS
1.7 will work with 9.1 and 9.2.1 when it is released, and then I can
recommend that). Don't use AS 1.6 for CGIs. There is a known bug that 1.7
should fix.
The answer is obviously in how you are building your href. Please provide
actual code for our review. I do this sort of thing all the time, and this
sort of behavior is usually a missed quote or angle bracket or some other
such silliness. Since you have to "escape" quotes in your AS code, it's easy
to screw that up.
Did you recompile the scripts for the new machine, or just copy them over?
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
In a message dated 10/11/01 8:18:01 PM, Rick Degelsmith wrote:
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Howdy all...I'm new to this list, longtime lurker of on web*
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list/mgi/netcloak, etc.
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Just upgraded from OS8.6 on G3 to 9.04 on G4, then to 9.1, and finally
9.2.1.
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When I got to any OS past 8.6, a cgi I've been using for text
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searches (serversearch.acgi) is behaving strangely--it used to search
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html pages and return a page with text-links based on the "title" tag
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of the html.
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Now, although it works, the link-text that gets returned IS NOT the
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title tag of the FOUND page...it's some crazy stuff...but it is the
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correct URL to the correct page -- just the link-text is munged (and
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no error from the cgi).
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IDEAS? What happened to applescript or the OS that could explain
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this...nothing else changed...including the AS version. Other
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"homegrown" cgis working fine.
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Here it is working on G3/450 OS8.6 AS1.4:
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http://www.mrlandlord.com/library.html (just search aug2001 for
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"tenant" for example)
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NOT WORKING VERSION: same software/server (web*) different
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machine/OS -- G4/733 OS9.2.1 (with Applescript 1.4 , NOT 1.6. )
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http://www.idt1.com/services/search.html (search for "data" for example)
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any idea how to correct this?
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rick