At 8/8/00 11:57 AM, Christopher Masto wrote:
>Quite wrong. Perl doesn't set any environment variables. But your
>web server should - it's part of the CGI specification.
That's true for most versions of Perl, but not for MacPerl.
Mac Web servers do not use the Unix CGI specification -- in fact, there's
no such thing as STDIN, STDOUT or environment variables with Mac
applications. Instead, Mac CGIs use AppleEvents for interprocess
communication.
Therefore, MacPerl does, in fact, set up pseudo environment variables so
that a MacPerl CGI script can be faked into working similarly to Unix
Perl CGIs. The Web server doesn't know a thing about it.
To make this work, special action needs to be taken to use MacPerl
scripts as CGIs, and there are some severe limitations with this
compatibility mode that are not present with normal Mac CGIs. For more
info, see:
http://www.perlmonth.com/columns/mac_perl/mac_perl.html?issue=11
Hope this helps. What you're trying to do isn't easy -- I have extensive
experience writing (non-Perl) Mac CGIs myself, and I chose to buy a new
Linux box to run the OpenSRS scripts on rather than attempt to get it
working on the Mac, if that gives you any indication :-(
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