Re: One link to 2 frames
Hello MNibble As a couple of other writers have said. Why are you using 'HTML FRAMES' and JavaScript to load them? Get a book on CSS and read it carefully. Then try a few things. Use XHTML preferably and it is all done on 'the user side'. That one CSS file can describe every page you want to have displayed - including links. And you can have multiple css files on your site. All you need to do is write that CSS file and then have each (X)HTML page refer to one or the other of your CSS files. The one you need for 'THAT PARTICULAR PAGE'. CGI should be kept for the server side manipulations of user data. Which is secure. The manipulation of FRAMES from CGI is a waste of time. And where I live with a standard link speed of 1.2Kb/sec speed means a lot to me. YES - No Broadband. cheers from James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Trying to block out BGCOLOR
Hello World Li Ngok Lam's approach looks good to me. Using the $line=~s// approach appears to be only removing the bgcolor word correctly but could be stuck on the different types of colour descriptor used. Is it RGB, hex or a word? Putting a background color descriptor in though allows you to change the image to a white or transparent gif file quite simply. You can still use the default background where needed. JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uninitialised variable error
Hello Everyone The following code :- #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # emails comments from the site to my address # use strict; use CGI; # # my $q = new CGI; my $name = $q-param( name ); my $email = $q-param( email ); my $comments = $q-param( comments ); my $info = ($name\n$email\n$comments\n); gives me an 'initialized variable' error for line 13 (the bottom line here). There are more but probably of no interest to anyone. Using each parameter alone does not fail. It looks as though adding a parameter name immediately after a \n does not work. I thought it did! tia for the simple answer Jimmy George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HTML, XHTML, XML, etc
Hello All This is not really CGI talk but I am interested in the statement that XHTML is a subset od XML and a parser should be available in the CGI library. To my mind XHTML is a cleaner version of HTML in that any opening tag has to have a closing tag. e.g. a p tag has to have a /p tag to close that particular block. BUT when we have something like a hr where no closing tag was required in HTML we now have to put a '/' in there. That is the hr now becomes hr / - not compulsory right now but it will be soon. So we can still search for an opening tag in XHTML as we did in HTML. They are still used. Then if you want to you can look for another text string starting with and see if it contains a /. That makes it a closing tag or a single tag entity. The clue here is the gap before the / It sounds easy I suppose but there will be some work involved because of all the single entity tags that never before had closing ones. cheers Jimmy George @CUDAL Australia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my $q = shift and another
Hello World Can anyone explain what that line my $q = shift; does in a cgi script? I cannot find the explanation in the cgi programming book I have. And how come my use of -wT in the opening line results in a 'Too late for Taint mode now' message? Again the cgi programming book uses it every where except for the security chapter but my Mac debugger will not accept it at all! thank you all in advance JimmyG @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get the last_modified date?
Put the ssi !--# echo var=LAST_MODIFIED-- in if you are reading the file from a server. I haven't tried it though. JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD5 SHA-1
Hello World I thought 'encryption' was supposed to make the data transmitted from user to server into an unreadable block of garbage. Able to be decoded by the server of course - but of no use to any one else who tapped into the transmission or the file stored on the server. So what's the go? How does SSL make such things as credit card details secure?? The spiel I have just read talks about a 'digest' but all that is doing is verifying that the information you sent to the user is coming back unaltered. Why send data to a user for them to send back to you? How do I mangle a credit card number and decode at my end??? thanks in advance JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why oh why?
Hello again World I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=lt;--#echo var=quot;LOCAL_TIMEquot; --gt; inside the forms shtml page gives an error from the server I check it on. The rest of the form is OK with this cut out. This shtml page calls a cgi script that simply writes the form content to a secure file on the users website and sends a thank you message. I have not yet been able to get the server I am hosted from to give me a date!! It did take me a week to realise that despite what some books say you DO have to have shtml on some machines when SSI is being used. I need some sites to look at for more information I think - or some stupidly simple piece of cgi that writes today's date to a file when it closes. GOOD beginners work. TIA JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: output pushing
Hello Hytham and world That is a good question. But 'pushing' means you have to be able to FORCE html code into a clients machine - not just allow them to be able to look for it themselves. Exit browsing. Logon and become lost. cheers JimmyG @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting the web page language
OOps folks That reply from me was completely wrong! SORRY. I was thinking of the character set as being part of the language it is being used in. Or at least I thought I was thinking. JimmyG @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSI calls
Hello World Is the line print DATAFILE (The file was recorded at !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y at %r--); a valid cgi line? All I want to do is record the time a cgi script is called that writes other form data to a file but the server objects to this line. The rest of the form goes into DATAFILE OK. Is it because of the use of double quotes twice by any chance??? cheers JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
update.cgi
Hello Steve I have lousy success with the $q cgi system as well. I will watch the replies for all the good ideas. Good luck mate JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
real beginners stuff
Hello World
If I logon to the web via (say) server_a and then start this script in server_b
which has the code in its cgi-bin folder
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#
use CGI qw(:standard);
#use strict;
#
print END_of_file;
Content-type: text/html
html
headtitleServer Environment/title/head
body
h2This server is:/h2brbr
Server Name:$ENV{SERVER_NAME}
Port Number:$ENV{SERVER_PORT}
Server Software:$ENV{SERVER_SOFTWARE}
/body/html
END_of_file
should I get to see the %ENV details of server_a?
I am getting a 500 error. Permissions are set to 711 for the script and
701 for the folder.
cheers
Jimmy George
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new lines and stupidity
Hello World David pointed out that the \n is not applicable in the context I was in and that the html br was. Of course! Only silly tired people like me do dumb things like that after having been using them in text definitions for the previous hour or more. Sorry about that. cheers Jimmy George @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
server_a and server_b description
Thank you all and here is a better description. When I logon to the web I am going through an ISP that (obviously) allows logons. So I enter the web with a user name through that ISP. My home site - the cabonnecreations - is on another server that does not have login capability. So my work within my home site is being done as a user of server_a - the one I logged onto the web as - but now inside server_b the one that has my home site. The protections I am being told about do not sound right to me for a cgi-bin folder. They should be readable by the owner but such protections as 755 or worse will give everyone access to all the cgi scripts that are inside it. That is they can read the things on their home system. An earlier email of mine did say that this cgi-bin folder in my home site is a 711 protection and does contain a file test1.cgi also at 711 protection that does work. So that 500 error MAY be because I am running the script as a world member and trying to access local data that possibly only the user can permit access to? Yes/NO? Using a submit from a form loaded from the site does not change the situation though. cheers Jimmy George @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: server_a and server_b permission update
Hello Wiggins and World As a check I did put the cgi-bin folder onto 755. That allowed me to read the contents of the folder and did allow me to run the errant environ1.cgi file. the error log is available and errors can look like this = 203.220.157.51 - - [07/Aug/2002:18:21:08 +1000] POST /cgi-bin/writefile.cgi HTTP/1.0 500 711 http://www.cabonnecreations.com.au/cgitests/form1a.htm; Mozilla/4.5 (Macintosh; I; PPC) 203.220.157.51 - - [07/Aug/2002:18:21:09 +1000] GET /.cobalt/images/computer_warning HTTP/1.0 302 250 http://www.cabonnecreations.com.au/cgi-bin/writefile.cgi; Mozilla/4.5 (Macintosh; I; PPC) where the second entry is the image being called that tells me the system has encountered and internal error or misconfiguration. The tests I did a few minutes ago will not be available until tomorrow. They are cron'd to my file at 0400hrs local time. I cannot check on my login ISP as we do not have a user folder to put any files in. I will try another site I used to use and still have an account in though and see what happens. cheers Jimmy George @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any Mac users out there?
Hello World Can any astute Mac user advise me on how to check a cgi code that writes to a file to do that with the command-r function on my home machine with MacPerl? Off line of course as this is the pre-alpha stage. And as a point of interest, the 'Camel book' on perl did refer to Macs but the version 2 of 'CGI under Perl' - the mouse book - does not refer to us at all!! cheers Jimmy George @CUDAL in Australia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
