Thanks, Jeremy - I was confused by your reference in an earlier message
to your previous post dealing with CGI.
I hadn't fully integrated the mention of CGI ON in the new docs, and
when I read the perl script before I sent my note, I saw that it was
just calling ANALOG and creating a config file "on the fly" (ANALOG +g-)
but it didn't strike me that this meant I could call analog.exe
directly, if I put it in the CGI directory.
So anlgform.pl allows me to use analog.exe from a form, without making
analog.exe available on a URL, because there might still be security
issues around that.
The documentation says of CGI ON that "You can't choose any options that
way though". This isn't my experience. I just typed in the following URL
http://<server>/analog/analog.exe?c:\logs\jun.log+c:\logs\jul.log+%2bC"H
OSTNAME+Test"+%2bO-+%2bC"CGI%20ON"
and got a report for the two logs specified, and with the specified
hostname. (This even works with CGI OFF in ANALOG.CFG. In fact,
ANALOG.CFG seems to be ignored - this command works even if there is no
ANALOG.CFG file).
This means that I can very easily create an ASP form to call Analog,
rather than use the perl script, (by redirecting to analog with the
appropriate parameters in the command line, though there may be command
line lenght limitations), but raises some security concerns (I'm only
dealing with an Intranet here, so security isn't a major concern, but it
may be an issue for others).
The short answer for Jeff Longland is that adding
CGI ON
OUTFILE stdout
to his ANALOG.CFG should do what he wants. Just don't let your ISP find
out :-)
Aengus
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Subject: Re: [analog-help] CGI Error on NT IIS 4
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Internet
Date: 10/21/99 8:33 AM
I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification, Stepehn. Also, here's the link
to
that binary, since that email never seemed to show up.
> For Aengus and anyone else trying the new beta on a Win32 system:
>
> I've posted an executable version of the form interface at
> http://www.wadsack-allen.com/digitalgroup/anlgform.zip (753k)
> Given the size, it probably won't make sense to bundle this with the Win32
> binary package of 4.0 so I'm happy to continue hosting it there.
>
> To use this you MUST have the form interface in the same directory as the
> analog.exe. (Or more precisely, it expects to find analog.exe in the
> directory it resides in. This is the same problem that the last version had,
> though that was c:\analog\, but this may be something that can be worked
> around before release.)
>
Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
> >
> > Somewhat unorthodox and not recommended. Analog.exe is NOT a CGI program and
> > will not behave right.
>
> You're a little out-of-date, Jeremy. In 3.9 you can make it work by
> including the command CGI ON. Then it will return the correct CGI headers.
> (Having said which, using the official Perl script is still much better).
>
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