I have a web page that can be accessed with a browser (IE4 and Netscape)
called Build the Snowman. On the left frame is the beginning template of
the snowman on the right frame is stuff like clothes, hats, etc... On the
bottom you hit a button which then calls a cgi program sitting on the Redhat
5.2 server. In that cgi program, the image is transferred over to java to be
merged as one picture. After that I guess it's thrown back to the cgi
program to replace the image on the left side as the finished project.
Originally this program was sitting on a SGI machine. The creator of this
program has long left this company. And I'm new to the whole Unix arena as
well as X-Servers, Java and CGI.
I hope this helps.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Glover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 11:05 AM
> To: Warren Johnson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Jdk 1.1.7 and X-Server
>
>
> I need a little more info. I understand that this is an
> application that is
> called as a CGI by Apache? Is it then supposed to display something on the
> server's X display while it works? (This seems like a tall order
> with possibly
> several hundred users on the web side but it may make sense for your
> application.) My kneejerk response is to ask if X is running on
> the server and
> to ask if your DISPLAY environment variable is set properly for
> user "nobody" or
> whoever your using for the web user. eg. "host.mynet.com:0.0"
>
> It's bizarre enough to make me wonder about security. All
> assuming, of course,
> that I understand your question.
>
