1. Help... Im lost(again) (was Re: More about Euphoria CGIs (a
Hiya all,
I must be as think as a brick... I have been messing with this since
this first was posted and had this lower example work... Then i started
messing with code and messed up.. So i restored the code to what it had
been... Then it starts to give theerr hex number not formed correctly
.. and now i cant get it to work... and i realy need it to... Im tryign
to put it on a web site for my clan(age of empires: rise to rome) to
report the statis of our games.... TIA
Grape Vine
>From: Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM>
>Reply-To: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
<EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>Subject: More about Euphoria CGIs (a succesful story!)
>Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:19:01 -0400
>
>I tried to execute the EuCGI without binding it. I was unsuccesful :(
>
>Here's the problem:
>
>Xitami recognize as a CGI a file that is located in a valid cgi
directory
>(it must be configured on the server for security reasons) *and* must
>follow one of these criterias:
>
>a) Be a valid exe file (starts with MZ).
>b) Start with #! a space and followed by the full path of the
interpreter
>(used by Perl and Awk scripts).
>c) Start with /*! a space and followed by the full path of the
>interpreter, and the last text in the line is */ (used by Rexx
scripts).
>
>I made a silly test and put on the first line of my code: #!
>c:\euphoria\bin\exw.exe
>
>Half Eureka. The server recognized it as a CGI and spawned exw.exe...
with
>the obvious error raised by Euphoria:
>
>C:\Xitami\cgi-bin\cgitest.exw:1
>hex number not formed correctly
>#! c:\euphoria\bin\exw.exe
>
>So here is a new entry to 2.1 beta wish-list:
>
>Rob, please be so kind to just raise a Warning if the very first line
of
>the code is either a Perl/Awk or Rexx style comment (I asume several
other
>servers work a similar).
>
>Creating bounded EuCGI is functional, but storage of all those .exe
files
>may not be desireable. Unregistered (yet) users may start playing with
>Euphoria for creating their own CGI's... you know, anything WWWebable
is a
>commercial success ;) (at least for book publishers).
>
>
>*Attention*
>While writing this email an idea jumped of my mind:
>
>If Xitami reads the first line of a Perl/Awk script to get the
interpreter
>path, then maybe I oculd fool it. So I created a blank new text
document
>(with Notepad) and wrote:
>
>#! c:\euphoria\bin\exw.exe c:\xitami\cgi-bin\cgitest.exw
>
>Followed by a blank line.
>
>It worked! Xitami just called exw.exe with the first parameter as my
EuCGI
>and as second (passed to my script's command line) the location of the
>"wrapper" text cgi. From now on I'll use this method for my EuCGI's. In
>fact I just moved eucgi.exw from the cgi-bin directory to
>c:\eucgi\eucgi.exw and instead put a wrapper file called eucgi (no
>extension) that says:
>
>#! c:\euphoria\bin\exw.exe c:\eucgi\eucgi
>
>The only withdraw of this method is that the current working directory
is
>set where the wrapper is. if you need to get the path of the actual
>Euphoria code you could SET a variable on autoxec.bat (EUCGI_DIR?).
Rob,
>why can't command_line give the path of unbounded files?
>
>Maybe my wish-list contribution should be ommited, but not the idea of
>making Euphoria more WWWebable.
>
>I apologize for this long and evolving post, it's one of those emails
you
>write while coding and testing. Anyways I thought it may be useful to
>follow the nature of this "hack".
>
>
>Regards,
> Daniel Berstein
> [daber at pair.com]
>
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2. Re: Help... Im lost(again) (was Re: More about Euphoria CGIs (a
At 01:02 PM 16-03-1999 , you wrote:
>Hiya all,
>
>I must be as think as a brick... I have been messing with this since
>this first was posted and had this lower example work... Then i started
>messing with code and messed up.. So i restored the code to what it had
>been... Then it starts to give theerr hex number not formed correctly
>.. and now i cant get it to work... and i realy need it to... Im tryign
>to put it on a web site for my clan(age of empires: rise to rome) to
>report the statis of our games.... TIA
>
>Grape Vine
Hi Grape.
Your are inserting the #! thingy on your exw file! That's wrong. Here are
step-by-step instructions to make it work on Xitami:
Create on the Xitami cgi-bin directory a text file (use notepad or ed or
whatever you like best) that says:
#! c:\euporia\bin\exw.exe c:\eucgi\mycgi
Remember that the above text must be on the very first line of the
document, and must be followed by at least one blank line.
c:\euphoria\... is the complete path to exw.exe. c:\eucgi\mycgi is the
parameter passed to exw.exe (Euphoria will execute the file
c:\eucgi\mycgi.exw).
On your EuCGI app (mycgi.exw in this example), read the enviormental
variable CGI_STDOUT. It holds the name of the file to where you should
output the HTML code. If you examine these name you'll notice that it
doesn't have a well formed path, so just prepend 'c:\\xitami\\temp\\' or
'..\\temp\\' to it. Open that file for 'a'ppend, open(out_file, "a").
Before sending HTML text, first you must output:
Content-type: text/html
Followed by at least one blank line, puts(fout, "Content-type:
text/html\n\n").
That's all!
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
[ daber at pair.com ]
3. Re: Help... Im lost(again) (was Re: More about Euphoria CGIs (a
I forgot to mention that the URL of your CGI is:
http://your.server/cgi-bin/cgifile
Where "cgifile" is the filename of that plain text file we created on the
cgi-bin directory. Remeber that the "cgifile" is simple way to fool Xitami
so it executes exw.exe, without needing to bound each EuCGI with it's own
exw copy.
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
[ daber at pair.com ]
