OpenEuphoria

RE: cgi

• Posted by Cassidy Napoli <gonzotek at yahoo.com> Oct 11, 2001
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Sorry, my first statement "It is NOT NECESSARY"  wasn't supposed to be 
there.  Yes, I'm now sure that it is the first line and that everything 
else is working.  It was my poor choice of webservers that was causing 
the most headaches.

Cassidy Napoli wrote:
> rolf.schroeder at desy.de wrote:
> > Hi Cassidy,
> > 
> > is it absolutely clear that the program line:
> > 
> >   puts(1,"Location: /resource.xxx\n\n")
> > 
> > is the first output of the program at the CGI SERVER SIDE called by the
> > client browser?
> > 
> > I append an example including an image. make a DIR 'test' under
> > 'cgi-bin' on your CGI server, copy all files into the 'test' dir, run
> > 'bindw test' to create en win32 executable and call from your browser:
> > 
> >   'http://ServerName/cgi-bin/test/test.exe'
> > 
> > enjoy!
> > 
> > Have a nice day, Rolf
> 
> Rolf,
> No it is NOT NECESSARY.  This is the *working* version of the cgi half 
> of my program:
> 
> image.ex (image.exe when bound)
> --------
> without warning
> 
> procedure main()
>  object request, server
>  sequence outstring
>  request = getenv("QUERY_STRING")
>  server = getenv("SERVER_URL")
>    if sequence(request) then
>       outstring = "Location: " & server & request & "\n\n"
>       puts (1, outstring)
>    end if
> end procedure
> 
> main()
> --------
> You need images in your default directory, then (running Xitami, anyway) 
> 
> point your browser to
> 
> http://yourserver/cgi-bin/image?imagename.gif
> 
> And it runs fine...I get back whatever image exist at iamgename.gif.  
> This was my goal and this is what it is doing.
> The other half of my program is what generates the .gifs.  So now, 
> everytime Winamp changes songs, the image is changed.  And everytime 
> someone requests
> 
> http://myserver/cgi-bin/image?isplaying.gif
> 
> they get the currently playing song, even if they had an older 
> isplaying.gif in browser cache.  As soon as I get the configs finished 
> I'll send you a copy so you can see exactly what is going on. 
> 
> Did you read the cgi information from 
> http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/out.html ?
> 
> In any event, thank you for your effort, but I've got it working now, 
> for sure.  I'm using it :).
> 
> -=Cassidy=-
> 
>