Re: [MacPerl] Turning MacPerl CGI's Off

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>]

At 9:09 AM -0600 on 1/7/97, Joseph Cozad%oakq1ak wrote:


}Subject: Turning MacPerl CGI's Off
}I have the following lines in my cgi script:
}
}if($contents{'get'} eq 'quit'){
}  &MacPerl'Quit(2);
}}

This should be:

if($contents{'get'} eq 'quit'){
  exit;
}

MacPerl::Quit does *not* quit MacPerl (something I learned the hard way),
merely sets a flag telling MacPerl what to do when it hits an exit in a
script.  I generally put MacPerl::Quit at the *beginning* of my scripts, so
I can see immediately what I've told MacPerl to do.

}
}Yet when I send a URL like:
}
}http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/thiscgi.cgi?quit
}
}the cgi and MacPerl don't quit. Why? What can I do to facilitate this?
}
}Joseph
}
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