> FC.cgi is unquestionably broken.
> I have tested this
> by dumping every packet sent
> between my computer and your server.
Alain: Don't be so dead-sure that it is my CGI that is
broken, Anthony. It works for everyone but you. A mere
coincidence? Probably not. Your setup is likely a very
good one (better/securer than most), but it is
somewhat paradoxical isn't it that better translates
into less flexible -- e.g. all other setups I have
encountered thus far have worked well with my CGIs.
> The outgoing packets are correct.
> The incoming ones are massacred.
> The only place for the massacre to occur
> is at the router-level webcache
> my ISP is running, ...
Alain: This is quite probably the crux of the problem.
> and your site is the _only_ one with problems.
Alain: In part, it is due to the fact that there are
very few HyperCard-based CGI programs out there. There
are very few Mac-based web-serving folk like myself,
for that matter.
> In fact, your CGI is the only thing on the web
> with problems!
Alain: And you are the only person having problems
with my CGIs. I am hosting hundreds of students as we
speak. I have hosted 5000 students thus far. No one of
them has reported anything remotely as bad as you are
reporting.
> And were there other problems,
> they would be known -- my ISP has
> over half a million users.
Alain: Yes, but does your ISP host HyperCard-based
CGIs?
> Chances are that your FC.cgi is spitting out
> nonsense headers.
Alain: This is plausible. I do not attend to any of
the HTTP headers at all. I never have. Not when
working with HyperCard-based CGIs being hosted by
WebStar 2.x. The only time I need to attend to the
HTTP stuff is when I make AppleScript-based CGIs.
> Anthony: I'd love to know why ...
Alain: Yes, it would be nice to know why ...
> Anthony: ... as it obviously needs to be fixed.
Alain: ... but the answer is of academic interest only
because the next step in the process is the complete
elimination of the CGI aspect of my
web-site-generator. It will soon become a local
program that spits out the entire web-site at once, as
pure HTML.
> I can't get the actual headers
> your cgi is spitting,
> because I am behind the cache.
> ... do it for me.
> Would someone please telnet to
> telnet://giguere.dsc.uqam.ca:80
> and type (exactly):
Alain: I did that,
but all I got was a "error. No such file".
I was careful with the case-sensitiveness.
The url/path was indeed the correct one.
I am a little bit surprised that
my password was not required.
> You should then get back a page and some headers.
> Please post both.
Alain: Sorry. I have nothing to post. I guess you will
have to wait for someone else to give it a try.
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