Re: [MacPerl] Troublesome CGIs

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 14.26 1998.04.12, Peter Nilsson wrote:
>Problem:
>After some random time (anything from seconds to hours) some, or all, of
>the cgi "applications" will hang. This is evident in the QPQ log, where
>calls to the cgi's generate 0 bytes in return. Browsers get "Doc. contains
>no data" after a 30 sec timeout.
>CGIs act funny when hung. They will not respond to the "Quit Now" button.
>I always end up quitting QPQ, MacPerl and then force-quitting the cgis
>and rebooting the server.

I have heard of other similar problems, but I don't know the answer.  I
don't know if it has ever been reported.


>Speculation:
>Is this because MacPerl gets confused by handling three concurrent
>scripts? I tried calling them just .cgi, but no luck.

Try calling them .acgi, but that should have no effect on this problem.


>Can I get this to run as pure .pl files? Standalone cgis? Will that help?

No, they have to be saved as CGI Scripts.

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