Hello Scott and y'all, I have a persistant problem with the "post url" syntax of MetaCard 2.5, as I did with 2.4 as well. The client is a MetaCard 2.5 stack with the following handler in a button :
on mouseUp put "http://www.giguere.uqam.ca/"; into myHost put myHost & "XA/MenusXApost.cgi" into myURL if the openSockets is empty then post field 1 to url myURL if the result is not empty then answer the result else answer it else beep end if end mouseUp The CGI program on the server-side is a HyperCard-based CGI which performs marvelously. It returns the minimum set of HTTP headers required by MetaCard. The proof of this is that the first click on the above button indeed returns what it is supposed to. Btw, I am using Webstar 2.1 on MacOS 8.6 on the server-side. The problem arises after the first click of this button. On the second and subsequent clicks of this button, the handler beeps, e.g. the openSockets is not empty which, IOW, means that the socket remains open after the first click. In fact, it (the socket) *never* closes, and this inhibits it from doing its thing more than once. My diagnostic, therefore, is that there is a bug in MC's post command whereby the socket that is opened is never closed. Please fix this *bug* by making the socket close automatically ASAP after the reply is received by the MC client. Or give us the new syntax we need to *close* the open sockets ourselves. If you disbelieve my account, then feel free to download a copy of my client stack which exhibits this problem : http://ufp.uqam.ca/MC/test_url_stuff.mc.zip Thank you for your time and earnest work, :) Alain Farmer NB: This is relatively URGENT for me. Please respond as soon as you can [Scott]. It has nothing to do with the interface; this is clearly an engine issue. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
