Re: [MacPerl] Source code to HTML

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 3:29 PM -0800 12/4/99, Mike Schienle wrote:
>At 4:32 PM -0500 12/4/99, Paul Schinder wrote:
>>At 2:11 PM -0700 12/4/99, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>Not a Perl problem, but an HTML feature...
>>>
>>>HTML considers <......>  as Tags.
>>>
>>>Any tag that it doesn't understand it ignores.
>>>
>>>You can circumvent this by changing
>>>
>>>   from.......  <
>>>
>>>   to.........  &lt;
>>
>>
>>Wouldn't it be better just to fix the server so that it served Perl 
>>scripts with the right MIME type?
>
>Unless I'm missing something, wouldn't that interfere with handling 
>CGI's with the same extension? .pl files are set to "CGI-script" on 
>my server. Currently, I'm removing the extensions from the perl 
>files and serving them up with a <PRE> before including the file. 
>I'd like to not hassle with the encoding. I'm running my own server 
>using Tenon's WebTen.


If you need to, either change the extension for CGI or change the 
extension for the scripts themselves.  But won't WebTen key off 
type/creator instead of extension, or is it so much just Apache that 
they haven't given it that capability?

>
>>Having to encode all of the forbidden (there are more than just < 
>>and >) HTML characters in each Perl script you put on a web site 
>>would be a real pain, and anyone who downloads the thing in raw 
>>(Netscape calls it "source") mode won't be able to use the script 
>>as intended.  The MIME types should be set so that Perl scripts are 
>>text/plain.
>
>
>Mike Schienle                                 Interactive Visuals, Inc.
>mgs@ivsoftware.com                  Remote Sensing and Image Processing
>http://www.ivsoftware.com/         Analysis and Application Development

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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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