Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Trouble w. MacPerl and ASIP

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

At 8:14 AM -0600 3/18/00, David Steffen wrote:
>MacPerl can only run one script at a time, and will fail gracelessly 
>if you ask it to do more.  There are two ways to keep this from 
>happening if you use MacPerl CGIs:
>
>1) Never use the .acgi extension.  That signals to your Web server 
>that your CGI can handle more than one thing at a time, which 
>MacPerl cannot.
>
>2) Never have more than one MacPerl .cgi on a server.  If you do, 
>there is no way for your Web server to know that only one of them 
>can be run at a time, and since they are both run by MacPerl, that 
>is the case.

David:

I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying here, 'cause 
it seems to be different from my experience. It's been bugging me all 
week, but this is the first chance I've had to fiddle with it.

At the moment I'm running NetPresenz v. 4.1 as my local web server 
(OS 9). I have a suite of test CGIs, plus some current projects set 
up as CGIs for testing on my Mac before they get installed elsewhere. 
I just fired off sveral CGIs, called from links on web pages or 
called from the location box of my browser (NS 4.7).

I have the Finder menu pulled down so I can see all of the programs 
I'm running: There are 9 MacPerl CGI icons showing right now, and the 
scripts all keep working if I switch among them or call them the web 
page links. As I type this some of the MacPerl program icons have 
timed out and gone away; I can add others by invoking more CGIs. Some 
of my CGIs have the suffix .acgi, and some have .cgi.

Am I describing what you're saying can't be done? If so, I'll provide 
more info about my setup and the nature of the CGIs. Have you tried 
NetPresenz?
-- 

- Bruce

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