At 12:46 PM -0800 3/13/01, David J. Iberri wrote:
>What *exactly* does MacPerl do when it saves a script as a CGI script?
It makes a copy of a small application from the "MacPerl Extensions"
folder named "CGI Script", it sets the Mac filesystem properties on
that copy such that it runs as an application, copies the current
script into the resource fork of that copy, and gives it the name
that you have chosen for your CGI.
That application knows how to do a few things:
1) Receive the appropriate AppleEvents from a Mac webserver that uses
the MacHTTP CGI convention (e.g. most Mac Webservers),
2) To parse out the appropriate arguments from the AppleEvents and
place them where (Mac)Perl would expect to find them, had they been
supplied by a Unix webserver,
3) To send them, along with the script and the appropriate
AppleEvents, telling MacPerl how to run, to MacPerl,
4) To receive STDOUT from MacPerl,
5) To translate that into appropriate AppleEvents and sent them back
to the Mac webserver.
Hope this helps.
(I also hope this is more or less correct :-)
-David Steffen-
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
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