Hi, The mt script below (Linux/Apache/MC2.3) successfully reads and return html form-data only when the form-data is short (less than 2-3 paragraphs). When the data is too long, a combination of several erratic behaviours can happen:
(1) data is read in and saved integrally into two files, but is returned truncated (2) data is neither saved into the files nor returned to the browser (i.e., the mt-generated page is returned, but data is missing from the textarea form-objects) (3) like (2), except the returned page appears "mutilated" (i.e., snippets of html coding appear in the places where the missing textarea form-objects ought to be) (4) data is not saved into the files, and a completely blank page is returned I checked the archives, especially Scott Raney's advice in http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03228.html that: > The actual buffer size depends on the version of UNIX > and even on what type of descriptor is being written to > and what the two ends are connected to. And the > amount you'll get in a given "read until empty"also > depends on CPU scheduling and how the process on the > other end wrote it out. But none of this should matter > if you do the reads correctly. Did I do the reads correctly? Thank you. Nicolas R Cueto %%%%%%% here's that script %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% #!mc on startup if $REQUEST_METHOD is "POST" then read from stdin until eof -- I also tried "until empty" put it into buffer -- do I need this line? set the itemDel to "&" put item 1 of it into tRawData1 put item 2 of it into tRawData2 put urlDecode(tRawData1) into tData1 put urlDecode(tRawData2) into tData2 put tData1 into url "file:data1.txt" put tData2 into url "file:data2.txt" ## write out HTTP headers here ## put "Content-Type: text/html" & crlf put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & crlf & crlf ## write the html file ## -- a bunch of html here. Essentially a 3x2 table, -- with 2 text area form objects into which -- tData1 & tData2 are "put" end if end startup Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
