Hi Alex:
I'm a rebol newbie, but have done a lot
of CGI programming, and have had to resolve
a lot of headaches myself. One of the things
that I do is build in switches to send my
content to a physical file if necessary. Often
times that is helpful, other times, one may actually
want to build static pages with the same code.
see http://www.rebolforces.com/cgi-util.html
also
http://www.rebolforces.com/cgi-basics.html
and
http://www.rebolforces.com/
good stuff there
You will find redundant and sloppy code in
cgi-util because I am very new to rebol,
but some useful stuff, I hope. Look for
functionality around re-direction of output.
Your comments, questions, and criticisms will
be appreciated. They will make me a better
rebol programmer.
You may email me directly if you wish.
regards
Tim
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> >- Open Your Mind -<
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> I've been going mad due to a malfunctioning CGI script. It wouldn't even tell me
>what the error was, I just got a generic error page.
>
> I've spent many hours trying to understand what the problem was, then I used a dirty
>trick (I simulated its execution *by hand*) and found out that the Content-Type
>wasn't being issued because there was a loading-time error, so even the very first
>instruction ( print "Content-Type: text/plain^/" ) wasn't executed. This happened
>online only, the offline execution was OK. Argh.
>
> Now the problem's solved, but it would be nice'n'useful to have a command line
>option to make sure that, in case *anything* gets written to standard output, the
>very first thing printed is "Content-Type: text/plain^/" or some other Content-Type.
> Now, if the script issues "Content-Type: text/plain^/" itself, that's OK, if the
>script issues "Content-Type: text/html^/" that's OK, if the script issues
>"Content-Type: movie/sci-fi^/", that's OK... but if the script issues anything else
>or if there's an early error, the REBOL interpreter issues "Content-Type:
>text/plain^/" *first*. So we can see what the hell's going on. :-)
> I realize this would bring performance down a bit, so it should be a separate,
>non-default choice. I was thinking something like --cgidebug or -d, like this:
> REBOL --cgidebug --secure none cgi-script.r
> REBOL -ds cgi-script.r
>
> Or at least have "Content-Type: text/plain^/" printed before any early error message
>when using the standard --cgi ((-:
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> Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> "Dave, about that monolith..." "Yes, HAL?" "Have you tried the switch?" (-O HAL 9000
>& Bowman :-)
