Malte Brill wrote:
> I am trying to move a request I do from a desktop app to a liveCode
> server script and am facing the problem that some of the stuff I use
> (most of it libURL stuff) is not available on the server. Now I
> wonder how I could translate it…
Have you considered running a standalone as your CGI?
Standalones can be run facelessly with a -ui flag, and while they
require a one-time cost to set up a library to read stdin and parse the
request and env vars, once you're set up you get something LiveCode
Server can't offer: complete compatibility with the LiveCode Script
desktop syntax.
LC Server is great for many things, but since it doesn't work like LC on
the desktop I don't use it for anything beyond testing. I need to
debug, and by not using the Server engine I can run my scripts right in
the IDE.
Last week I was going to put together some notes on this to make using
LC standalones as CGIs easier, but as luck would have it I couldn't get
either Server or a standalone running as a CGI on either of my shared
hosting accounts, for reasons that appear to be related to the RAM
requirements from font loading:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14115
I have a workaround for that (thanks to some clever assist from Peter
Brett and Mark Waddingham), but it's kinda funky and non-obvious to set
up, so while it might work okay for me once in a while it's not the sort
of thing I want to tell other people is reflective of how we do things
in the LC world. We are, after all, about simplicity, or at least
strive for it.
But if you're on a VPS (about half our users are*) perhaps we can
continue this discussion and explore simple means of using standalones
as CGIs. It really is a much simpler overall workflow once you get it
going.
* I ran this survey on the LC forums - if you haven't voted please chime
in on how you use LC on servers:
POLL: LiveCode Server deployment
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=26772
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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