Hi Mark, Yes, thanks. That confirms what I'm seeing. Only problem is I have some freebie product (the Spellchecker plugin for HTMLArea) that needs to execute a perl script to call the Aspell spell checker, which gets invoked from somewhere inside the plugin's javascript I believe using some form of relative addressing. Does this mean I either need to edit the javascript or I can't do it ?
Steve. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2005 19:28 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: CGI Kelly, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > Is the following consistent with how CGI perl scripts should execute > under a tomcat webapp? > > I have a webapp called mywebapp and a perl script called myperl The > web.xml file contains the following: > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>clientInputTimeout</param-name> > <param-value>100</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>debug</param-name> > <param-value>6</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>executable</param-name> > <param-value>perl</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name> > <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > and > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > If I enter the url //localhost:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF/cgi/myperl I get > a "resource unavailable" error. Correct. Resources under WEB-INF are not directly accessible. > If I enter the url //localhost:8080/mywebapp/cgi-bin/myperl it > executes the myperl script successsfully. Also correct. > > If I edit the web.xml file to change the cgiPathPrefix to, for > example, myscripts/cgi and then I enter the url > //localhost:8080/mywebapp/myscripts/cgi/myperl it simply displays the > perl script code. This is as expected for the configuration settings. However, I wouldn't want to run my server like this. It is usually a bad thing (tm) from a security point of view to expose your CGI script. > Again if I enter the url //localhost:8080/mywebapp/cgi-bin/myperl it > executes the myperl script successsfully. Also, as expected from the config settings. HTH, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
