Re: AppleScript CGI
Re: AppleScript CGI
- Subject: Re: AppleScript CGI
- From: Nelson Byrne <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:36:48 -0800
Ken Graff,
Thanks for the information about CGIs under AppleScript. Now my eyes
are opened I see right there in the Essential Sub-Routines note that
"AppleScript CGIs are fully supported with Apache running on Mac OS X
Server."
It doesn't strictly say that lacking Server one needs extra stuff (like
acgi dispatcher), but it doesn't strictly say that one doesn't, either.
By the way, I don't see why the Essential Sub-Routines article insists
that the applet have a name ending with ".cgi" anyway. Other CGIs can
have any name whatsoever. Perhaps if I DID have OS Server I would know.
Best regards and Happy New Year
Nelson Byrne
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:42:09 -0500
From: Graff <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: AppleScript CGI
To: Nelson Byrne <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
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
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