Re: CGI automatic download file
Re: CGI automatic download file
- Subject: Re: CGI automatic download file
- From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:54:02 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mark J. Reed wrote:
However, stock AppleScript has no print() function; your basic output
options are log, display dialog, and say. This inability to directly
produce an output stream makes the whole concept of an AppleScript CGI
very odd. How are you doing such a thing, and why?
Most Applescript CGIs conform to the MacHTTP/Webstar "sdoc" convention
(iirc), in which the web server (or surrogate) executes the the CGI
through the sdoc event (now codified as "Handle http request" in SE). The
page is composed as a lump of text and simply "returned" to the invoking
process. Management of the HTTP header isn't quite as robust as it is
under PHP (less of it is accessible by convention). It's still quite
possible to write applescript cgis, though apache needs some middleware to
pass postargs, etc. in and get the html back).
-Brian Johnson, Dept of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle
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