Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script
Ken,
The difference is when you run through command script you are executing
the file as /"owner"/ and as "/Other/" when you access it through the
browser. Looking at the error message you sent, I believe it might not
be executing the complete script. Try setting permissions as 707 or 777
to start with. You may have to create a temporary directory to test with.
Let me know if you have any questions,
Vishwam
Vishwam Annam
Wright State University Libraries
120 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435
Office: 937-775-3262
FAX 937-775-2356
Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm moving to a new web server and struggling to get it configured properly. The problem of the
moment: having a Perl CGI script call another web page in the background and make decisions
based on its content. On the old server I used an antique Perl script called "hcat"
(from the Pelican book<http://oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch04.html>); I've also tried
curl and LWP::Simple.
In all three cases, I get the same behavior: it works just fine on the command
line, but when called by the web server through a CGI script, the LWP (or other
socket connection) gets no results. It sounds like a permissions thing, but I
don't know what kind of permissions setting to tinker with. In the test script
below, my command line outputs:
Content-type: text/plain
Getting URL: http://www.npr.org
885 lines
Whereas the web output just says "Getting URL: http://www.npr.org"; - and doesn't even get
to the "Couldn't get" error message.
Any clue how I can make use of a web page's contents from w/in a CGI script?
(The actual application has to do with exporting data from our catalog, but I
need to work out the basic mechanism first.)
Here's the script I'm using.
#!/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
my $url = "http://www.npr.org";;
print "Getting URL: $url\n";
my $content = get $url;
die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;
@lines = split (/\n/, $content);
foreach (@lines) { $i++; }
print "\n\n$i lines\n\n";
Any ideas?
Thanks
Ken
Re: [CODE4LIB] next generation opac mailing list
As a technical person (library guy, but not a librarian!), I agree with Karen in including 'catalog' in the list name. I think, this helps support people to understand what this list is about. Just for a thought.. ngcatalog4web? May be it is wordy too . BTW ngo in ngo4lib could mean "non-gazetted officers" in some counties esp. in India Vishwam Vishwam Annam Web Developer Wright State University Libraries Dayton, OH 45435 K.G. Schneider wrote: I agree -- the term OPAC brings with it a whole set of last-generation assumptions. It strikes me as being like starting a list on new developments in Web technology called "Gopher 3.0" or something. Also, NGO is traditionally used to describe Non-Governmental Organizations like the Red Cross, Amnesty International, etc. Probably more people are familiar with the acronym NGO than with OPAC. --Casey As a word person, I keep circling back to the word "catalog," because... * It's not an acronym-particularly not an acronym that makes my skin crawl; it's nice plain English * It is broad enough to refer to all the functions a catalog might include: user interface (which is what OPAC refers to), commerce, inventory, reporting, data management... Just a thought. Karen S.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Javascript question
Hi Andy,
Thank you for your response. Here is the scoop behind these include files:
* I have copyright information for Faculty at
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/services/copyright/fac_staff/, you
can see a link to "Primary Sources" which is lined to
primary.html?Faculty
* I have copyright information for Students at
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/services/copyright/students/, you
can see a link to "Primary Sources" which is lined to
primary.html?Students
* If a person is coming from Faculty page, I want to have left
navigation bar (this is a SSI html file) for Faculty
* If some one is coming from Students, I want to have the above as
Students
Do you think this is possible with JavaScript? Please let me know if any
of the above info is not clear.
Thank you,
Vishwam
Houghton,Andrew wrote:
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Vishwam Annam
Sent: 08 June, 2005 14:41
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Javascript question
I have a question about including html files in javascript. I
created a page at
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/services/copyright/fac_staff/p
rimary.html?Faculty
where I am passing value via url as "?Faculty", and I wrote
javascript such as below:
a=location.search.substring(1);
if(a=="Faculty")
{
document.write(' I want to include faculty.html file here'); } else
if(a=="Students")
{
document.write('I want to include students.html file here');
}
Is there anyway I can do this with Javascript? I'd appreciate
your responses,
What is the intent of doing this? If you are trying to have
two separate documents, one for faculty and the other for
students, then just place the content in two documents. For
example:
primary.html
primary-faculty.html
primary-student.html
in primary.html you could just do:
a = location.search.substring(1);
if (a.toLowerCase() == "Faculty".toLowerCase())
window.location.href = primary-faculty.html;
else
window.location.href = primary-student.html;
but this still begs the question: why not just have your users go
directly to primary-faculty.html or primary-student.html? The only
reason I can see, is when primary.html is a well known URL on your
site and you don't want to change it. If that's the case, you could
have your Web server just rewrite the URL's:
primary.html?Faculty -> primary-faculty.html
primary.html?Student -> primary-student.html
The only other reason why you might want to do this sort of thing,
is if you have one page and you want to include additional content
for either faculty or students. In that case, why not just use an
iframe? For example:
ifrm = document.getElementById("ifrm");
a = location.search.substring(1);
if (a.toLowerCase() == "Faculty".toLowerCase())
ifrm.src = primary-faculty.html;
else
ifrm.src = primary-student.html;
Andy.
[CODE4LIB] Javascript question
Hello List,
I have a question about including html files in javascript. I created a
page at
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/services/copyright/fac_staff/primary.html?Faculty
where I am passing value via url as "?Faculty", and I wrote javascript
such as below:
a=location.search.substring(1);
if(a=="Faculty")
{
document.write(' I want to include faculty.html file here');
}
else
if(a=="Students")
{
document.write('I want to include students.html file here');
}
Is there anyway I can do this with Javascript? I'd appreciate your
responses,
Thank you,
Vishwam
Re: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars
I haven't played much with browser toolbars, but I wrote search plugins for mozilla browsers. These are like Google, Amazon, Yahoo.. etc which comes with firefox by default. Our catalog search plugins are at http://www.libraries.wright.edu/download/plugins/ If you are looking some thing like this, I'd be happy to share my experience. Vishwam - Original Message - From: Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:07 pm Subject: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars > How does one go about creating a browser toolbar? You know. Things > likethe Google or Yahoo toolbars. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > (574) 631-8604 > begin:vcard n:Annam;Vishwam fn:Vishwam Annam tel;fax:937-775-2356 tel;home:937-431-5115 tel;work:937-775-3262 org:Wright State University;Library Computing Services version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Web Developer end:vcard
