Thanks Robert for the forewarning!
The reference to applescript has been popping up everywhere in conjunction
with cgi's. I'm pretty good with applescripting and am toying with
incorporating the cgi script into some applescript and recompiling. Thanks
for your help... Keep an eye on this thread, please!
-Wes
Tiger Technologies wrote:
> 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 :-(
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
>
> "A professional in an ape mask is still a professional." -Marge Simpson
