Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems

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

Let me refrase that: Actually, CGI halts your webserver program (keeps it 
from responding to any requests)  until your script is done.

Although this will make it take longer, if you put the following anywhere in
your script it should clear up any problems with not letting go of the
memory:

MacPerl::Quit (2);

It shouldn't matter whether it is a CGI or an ACGI.

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>From: Dennis Little <dennis.j.little@lmco.com>
>To: Quentin Smith <macmania@bit-net.com>, mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] ACGI Problems
>Date: Fri, Feb 26, 1999, 4:28 PM
>

> Quentin,
>
> Actually, this is only true to some extent on the Mac (not sure on others).
> A CGI will still update the clock and allow the system to communicate with
> the mouse (and probably other peripherals) while it's running.
>
> On the original topic of problems with a CGI/ACGI causing system freezes,
> changing it from an ACGI to a CGI on the Mac didn't do anything.  I ran the
> script 3 times before my system froze.  These were also run far enough
> apart that they didn't interfere with one another.
>
> Anyone else have any ideas on what would cause a CGI/ACGI to freeze a Mac
> after very few runs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dennis Little
> dennis.j.little@lmco.com
>
> At 10:09 AM -0500 2/26/99, Quentin Smith wrote:
>>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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