Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems

["Quentin Smith" <macmania@bit-net.com>]

Actually, CGI completely halts your server until the script is done. ACGI 
lets the server continue on it's business until the script is done. AFAIK,
the MacPerl CGI extension allows multiple requests, and therefore ACGI.

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>From: Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>
>To: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems
>Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999, 2:09 PM
>

> 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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