On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
Yes, all you need is an appleevent handler that checks for web
event and replies to it by sending html page. My old starter.cgi is
still online for those who wants to get rolling faster.
This solution is particularly easy to implement for people with no
unix background, which is required at least to some degree to
handle an Apache setup. I am also running Apache/PHP/MySQL service
and it is surely more work to maintain.
Robert
Robert,
thanks for pointing me to this thread. I was so lazy a programmer in
the MacOS 8.x days that I never understood how CGIs and HTTP and
AppleEvents worked. I came to figure those things later in MacOS 9.x
and then MacOS X (lucky me I came from linux so unix was something I
was familiar). I remember seeing about ACGI but I could not
understand the thing. Now I just downloaded MacHTTP and read the
manual, it's so clear and I find the design so simple and yet very
macintosh-esque. Could you send your starter.cgi for me to look? I
am planning in stealing some ideas for the next installment of
RevHTTPd.
MacHTTP works best under OS 8.6. Under OS 9, it has to be restarted
once a while as it hits bugs in TCP.
My starter is on http://www.robelko.com/metacard/starter-cgi.html
Unfortunately, I just discovered that there is some weird problem
with downloading the file. I have reported it already to my IPP and
hope they fix it soon (the problem does not come from my doing). If
they don't fix it within a couple days, I pull the file out from my
archives and send by email. I should probably update it anyway since
it seems to be still more or less regularly fetched by someone.
I actually have a lot more advanced version of that starter.acgi but
keep delaying to make it available to others until I port it to OS X
and fix a few known problems. It is basically a framework for simple
content management system or extendable acgi, depending how one looks
at it.
As of now, RevHTTPd is source compatible with libCGI meaning that
cgis coded for libCGI will work out of the box in RevHTTPd, would be
usefull to expand RevHTTPd so that it could launch ACGI and/or
receive ACGI calls from MacHTTP and WebStar? Do people need this?
This would be a handy feature if it worked under OSX but it can't
until Apache recognizes apps-in-folders as real apps under OSX. The
acgi dispatcher is no rescue as it faces the same problem. This means
that such a feature would be limited to OS8 and OS9. But having it
will be just a few lines of code, so it may be worth your effort.
From what I heard from others, WebStar has some problems with such
acgi's and it is doubtful that this will ever get fixed. I haven't
tested this myself, though, because Webstar costs money, a chunk of
money, whereas MacHTTP is free and open source (as aside, let me
remind that WebStar is really a child of MacHTTP -- WebStar 1.0
became what was supposed to be MacHTTP 3.0). There was even a spur of
effort to port it to OSX but it fizzled away. Having OSX version of
MacHTTP would allow us to run Rev-based cgi's as resident Mac apps
offering a simple-to-use alternative to using sockets for inter-app
communication (as Pierre always recommends :) and another alternative
to Apache-style non-resident cgi's.
Robert
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