Re: Trapping Errors

[David Bovill]

Test your CGI's thoroughly offline first. When I was doing this a while back
I used a Metacard stack to process forms and act as a spoof browser for this
job.

Are you using ".mt" scripts or the Metacard based HTTP server?

> From: Gary Rathbone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:37:30 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Trapping Errors
> 
> I'm writing an increasing number of complex cgi's using Metacard (What a
> tool !)
> I submit a page from by browser and metacard processes the request and
> returns the required result. However should I (an I often do) have a typo in
> my script eg:
> 
> "put thtmlpage ito thtmlout"
> 
> the browser 'sticks' as MC can't produce the results due to the error. In
> this instance MC doesn't return any error information and I have to search
> through the script line by line to hopefully find my mistake.
> 
> Q: Can I return a 'readable' MC error message to the browser or even put a
> message into an error field on the stack ? I guess I need to write my own
> error routines...If so can anyone give me any pointers ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Gary Rathbone 
> 
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