Re: [MacPerl] Passing Text to a Browser

[Robert Crews <Robert_Crews@CSI.COM>]

Actually, it's 128.0.0.1. The complete recipe is this:

Open your TCP/IP control panel
Set Connect Via to AppleTalk (MacIP)
Set Configure to Using MacIP Manually
Set your MacIP server zone to your Current AppleTalk Zone
Set your IP Address to 128.0.0.1

Leave everything else blank. I saved this configuration as "Local CGI
Development." That way, I can easily switch between my Internet provider
and my local CGI development settings. (Open TCP/IP, then Command-K,
then click the setting to use.)

As for Web servers, I find that Apple's Personal Web Sharing is
excellent for all purposes. (It's available from the Apple Web site. I
also think it's on MacOS 8 CD.) It plays my MacPerl CGI scripts very
well, and displays interactive error messages right in my browser. The
only disadvantage to PWS is the annoyance that it hangs if you try to
serve any HTML content larger than 32 KB. This problem is not worth
buying a commercial Web server for. It's easy to work around.

Feel free to contact me directly if you're having any trouble setting
this up.

Robert

Francois Granger wrote:
> your "local" adress is usually 127.0.0.1 this is called the loop back adress.
> But you have to have a Web server running on your mac.



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