Re: [MacPerl] Is there a problem with MacPerl's CGI extensionfile?

[jean-michel meyer <mjm@aix.pacwan.net>]

Stephane Jose wrotte :
>Problems occur once the script is saved as a cgi applet. When I use the cgi
>applet with Webstar 2.0 it returns the following error:
>
>Error -1700: Getting CGIreply string (Reply Data could not be coerced to
>requested type (char))
>Error executing CGI application.
>07/03/98	12:45:16	OK
>	192.168.0.2:exulon:cgi-bin:invent:invent.cgi	0
>
>
>Netscape Communicator 4.0 gets 'Error! Unable to execute the requested CGI
>application.' and returns the dialog 'Document contains no data'

It seem that your problem doesn't came from the MP extension.

Personnaly i get the same message when the CGI procesing made nothing. I
mean that the request  sended to the CGI  is not treated and/or has no
result output, so the CGI return an empty answer.  That for the :
'Document contains no data' output, wich is the most significant part of
the answer.

To debug that kind of problem i insert a sentence, 'I have been here (...)
', in the CGI, to locate the instructions where the program stop.  Each
time it is succesfull, i move  the sentence further into the program.

I hope it match your problem.

MJM

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