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macperl-webcgi-digest   Thursday, February 25 1999   Volume 01 : Number 001




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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:26:24 -0800
From: Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] This is a test of the macperl mailing lists

If anyone is out there, you might want to reply.

You might want to try the digests.

Take a look at http://www.macperl.org:8873/depts/mlists.html

We expect the lists to go public, oh, tomorrow?  If there be anyone 
here who have just cause why these here lists shall not be mentioned 
yet, let him speak now...
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:39:02 -0500
From: Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Relevancy Rating Schemes

I know how to create a Perl search engine for a web site that will return a list
of hits linked back to the corresponding files, but how do you create a ranking
system that will let you order the results by degree of relevancy? If the search
term is just one word, it seems to me that every result would be 100 (on a 0-100
scale); if it was two words in an "OR" search, a hit would either be 50 or 100,
etc. I assume that I am not considering something obvious since ranking schemes
don't appear to actually work that way.

Thanks for any explanations of this voodoo.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:51:34 -0700
From: jason white <jason.white@usu.edu>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Anything doin'?

Just wondering if there's any activity here yet?  I signed up about a week
ago...and haven't seen anything.  I signed up digest, so that might be the
issue.  Just wondering...

Jason

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:01:54 -0500
From: "Peter R. Wiley" <prdesign@sunlink.net>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] SSI & HTTP headers

I'd like to have a CGI called from an SSI set a cookie.  I've tried to make
this work (on an Apache server) and I just can't.

I thought that all one would need to do is:

	print "Set-Cookie: cookie=whatever\n\n";

but this does nothing at all, although it works just find in non SSI CGIs.

I've asked the ISP webmaster who has said some cryptic things about SSI
being difficult to get to work . . . so they don't "officially" support it

Can anyone help?


Peter R. Wiley

PR/Design
301 South 21st Street
Lewisburg, PA 17837-1615

Phone: 570-522-0738                      Fax: 570-522-0736
	E-Mail: prdesign@sunlink.net



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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:15:18 -0500
From: Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] ACGI Problems

Using MacPerl ACGI's with NetPresenz and/or Apple Web Sharing, I keep running
into problems with stallouts. The scenario is that I call the ACGI from a link
and it opens a file, extracts a portion of it, and returns that to the browser.
That appears to work fine until I've run it 3-4 times in a row, then I
eventually get a 502 bad gateway error even if it's just trying to retrieve the
same chunk of text it already pulled in once before.

This looks/feels very much like MacPerl is running out of gas, but I've got 10
megs allocated to it. The ACGI itself hangs and won't go away except via a force
quit. Am I correct in understanding that the ACGI would not be likely to benefit
>from an increase in memory since it is just passing AE on to MacPerl, or does it
also deal with the output and assist in directing it to the web server? Does
anyone have any other suggestions about how to contend with this kind of thing?

BTW, I've been fighting this off and on for several months and the last time I
tested this stuff in MkLinux using Apache, I didn't encounter the problem. Is it
more likely that the stalls are related to MacPerl itself or the limits of the
Mac web servers (neither of which actually hang or anything, they just return
the bad gateway error). Thanks.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:56:24 -0500
From: Paul Miller <pmiller@spectrumtelecorp.com>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems

>BTW, I've been fighting this off and on for several months and the last 
>time I
>tested this stuff in MkLinux using Apache, I didn't encounter the problem. 
>Is it
>more likely that the stalls are related to MacPerl itself or the limits of 
>the
>Mac web servers (neither of which actually hang or anything, they just return
>the bad gateway error). Thanks.
>
>Richard Gordon
>Gordon Consulting & Design
>Voice: 770-565-8267  Fax: 770-971-6887

I ran into a similar problem when trying to set up a CGI to save uploaded 
files. Below a certain size, it ran fine. If the file got too big, 
however, bam. The CGI script hung and wouldn't stop and the system got 
real unstable fast.

My guess is that it has something to do with the way MacPerl talks to the 
server and the CGI via AppleEvents. Is there some practical limit on how 
much data can be passed?

I ended up moving the whole thing over to a unix box and it works fine, 
all the time. There's gotta be a better way...
paul




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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:53:21 -0500
From: Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>
Subject: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems

On 2/25/1999 at 11:09, bva@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:

> I remember discussion here related to CGI/ACGI on Mac servers a few months
> ago. One important conclusion was this: don't run your scripts as ACGI;
> Save with ".cgi" not ".acgi" as the suffix.

That's kind of interesting and depressing at the same time. Anyway, I just got
thru installing this stuff on a client's Sun server box and it ran fine, so it's
some kind of Mac thing.

BTW, I used telnet to run some file processing scripts on the content in
preparation for actually testing the cgi's. I was absolutely astounded by the
Sun's Perl speed- it manipulated, rewrote and indexed 4000 pages of html in less
than 20 seconds.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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