Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] STDOUT with MacHTTP -- Help

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

As a follow-up from my earlier post in which I wrote:
>Peter R. Wiley wrote:
>>    print *STDOUT $line;

>Disclaimer/ignorance paragraph: I don't much about MacHTTP. STDOUT 
>is implicit in print statements, and I don't think you need the '*' 
>(in fact, I don't have time to look this up right now, but what 
>_does_ *STDOUT do? Filehandles can be referenced with '*', but I'm 
>not clear why one might want a ref to STDOUT).
>

OK, so I had a chance to refresh my memory of where I've seen 
*STDOUT, so what I said above earlier today can be clarified:

First STDOUT is the default "file" for printing , so a print 
statement with no filehandle goes to STDOUT, as I said. BUT, the 
default may be set to something else using select(), so if one wants 
to be sure of printing to STDOUT, then it should be included, a la:

	print STDOUT "Hello world.\n";

\*STDOUT is a reference to STDOUT. Note the '\' , which is what makes 
a reference to the filehandle typeglob *STDOUT. This might be used 
within subroutines that require filehandles to be held/manipulated in 
variables.

So unless the code in your original message was from within a 
subroutine, lose the *STDOUT.

And unless you change the default print filehandle, just use
	print "[your_output]";
to send output to the web server.

Hope this helps; it might have gotten away from your basic question 
about configuring MacHTTP, but its hard to know where the problem 
comes from without more specifics, and what you offered was code that 
seemed problematic, so that's what I responded to. :-)

1;

- Bruce

__Bruce_Van_Allen___bva@cruzio.com__Santa_Cruz_CA__

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