Its all Mac based and I'm using MC as an HTTP server with additional code to
process forms. It works a treat... until I make a mistake like a typo...
If I type :
on mouseUp
put "thtml" ito "pageout"
end mouseUp
into the button script of any stack, its accepted ie no semantic error. When
I click on the button however an error "Cant find handler" along with line
number and other error info is presented in the Execution Error dialog box.
Great - enough info to locate and fix the problem.
Now if the above routine is called by a browser through a socket connection
to an MC stack then MC doesn't present the same Execution Error box and the
only clue that something is wrong is that nothing is returned to the
browser. Hence manually searching through the code. Any ideas ?
on 13/9/00 5:11 pm, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Test your CGI's thoroughly offline first. When I was doing this a while back
> I used a Metacard stack to process forms and act as a spoof browser for this
> job.
>
> Are you using ".mt" scripts or the Metacard based HTTP server?
>
>> From: Gary Rathbone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:37:30 +0100
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Trapping Errors
>>
>> I'm writing an increasing number of complex cgi's using Metacard (What a
>> tool !)
>> I submit a page from by browser and metacard processes the request and
>> returns the required result. However should I (an I often do) have a typo in
>> my script eg:
>>
>> "put thtmlpage ito thtmlout"
>>
>> the browser 'sticks' as MC can't produce the results due to the error. In
>> this instance MC doesn't return any error information and I have to search
>> through the script line by line to hopefully find my mistake.
>>
>> Q: Can I return a 'readable' MC error message to the browser or even put a
>> message into an error field on the stack ? I guess I need to write my own
>> error routines...If so can anyone give me any pointers ?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Gary Rathbone
>>
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