Dave Cragg wrote: > At 10:56 pm -0700 24/8/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> With this script on the server: >> >> #!mc >> on startup >> if $REQUEST_METHOD is "POST" then >> read from stdin until empty >> put it into buffer >> put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr >> put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr >> put buffer >> end if >> end startup >> >> And this script in a local stack: >> >> on mouseUp >> put "data=" & urlEncode( fld "s") into tData >> post tData to url "http://www.fourthworld.net/cgi-bin/t.mt"; >> put it into fld "r" >> end mouseUp >> >> >> ...sometimes I get data returned from the server as expected, other times >> "it" is empty. >> >> I'm using the latest version of libURL downloaded from runrv.com, under MC >> 2.4.3 build number 3. >> >> Any clues on why it's sometimes working and sometimes not? > > To check if the problem is at the client or server end, you should > check the result of the post statement. > > post tData to url "http://www.fourthworld.net/cgi-bin/t.mt"; > if the result is empty then > put it into fld "r" > else > answer the result > end if > > Also, to test if data is getting read in at the server end, you could > add a line like this. > > read from stdin until empty > put it into buffer > put "EXTRA DATA" before buffer > put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr > put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr > put buffer >
Did that. It seems to be on the client side. All server data comes back as expected, but the length of the data coming in from the cliebt is usually 0 (it works about 5% of the time, at seemingly random intervals). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
