Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems

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

Richard Gordon wrote:

>Using MacPerl ACGI's with NetPresenz and/or Apple Web Sharing, I keep running
>into problems with stallouts. The scenario is that I call the ACGI from a link
>and it opens a file, extracts a portion of it, and returns that to the
>browser.

>That appears to work fine until I've run it 3-4 times in a row, then I
>eventually get a 502 bad gateway error even if it's just trying to
>retrieve the same chunk of text it already pulled in once before.

and Dennis Little wrote:
>If you happen to find the solution to this one, let me know.  I've had a
>similar but worse problem of lockups running a VERY simple cgi/acgi (take
>information from the form and mail it to one address -- no additional
>parsing needed).  After between 2-5 runs, my machine locks up completely
>(no mouse movement, clock stopped, etc).


I remember discussion here related to CGI/ACGI on Mac servers a few months
ago. One important conclusion was this: don't run your scripts as ACGI;
Save with ".cgi" not ".acgi" as the suffix.

HTH.

- Bruce

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