Re: PROBLEM WITH AUTHENTICATING USERS

2001-08-01 Thread fliptop
[reply posted to list] Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > > Sorry mate. I run an apache webserver on a Linux 7.1 server. > > Does this make any real difference though? if you run apache, consider adding mod_perl. then consider using authentication and authorization to solve your problem. with about

re: problems with Guestbook script from "Official Guide ... CGI.pm"

2001-08-01 Thread Bertram, Paul
Eric, Changing the lock() to filelock() fixed the second problem, but I still can't figure out the "escapeHTML()" problem (item 1 below). Maybe there's already an escapeHTML() function in CGI.pm? I'll have to check. Paul "Eric J. Wisti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: SMTP e-mail attachment?

2001-08-01 Thread Mike Parsons
- Original Message - From: Mike Parsons To: Helen Dickey Sent: 8/1/2001 1:53:05 PM Subject: RE: SMTP e-mail attachment? Hi, I am VERY new to all this, but if the HTML is sent in code form to your friend, can't she Copy and Paste the code to her notebook, save it as "Pr

Re: form-to-email script

2001-08-01 Thread Larry Mullis
Mr. Schwartz, I appreciate your concern that the code that I eventually install live on my server be as safe as possible and the last thing I wish to happen is for the security of my system to be compromised. I have visited numerous sites dealing with Perl/CGI as well as purchased several books

RE: Tie and HASHREF's

2001-08-01 Thread Bradley M. Handy
I decided that I would try it myself, and I have found that the code below is correct. For a tied hash (%hash), and the variable $hashref is assigned \%hash the following lines are equivalent: $hashref->{key} eq $hash{key}; $hash{key} eq $hash{key}; Brad Handy --www.jack-of-all-

Re: problems with Guestbook script from "Official Guide ... CGI.pm"

2001-08-01 Thread Eric J. Wisti
Haven't ever used 'lock', but it is a perl function for use with threading. I am using some of the code from the book, including the function that you refer to. I just changed the subroutine name from 'lock' to 'filelock'. Eric On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Bertram, Paul wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 1

Re: Way off topic...

2001-08-01 Thread John Griffiths
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problems with Guestbook script from "Official Guide ... CGI.pm"

2001-08-01 Thread Bertram, Paul
Folks, I have been teaching myself CGI/Perl. I have Lincoln Stein's book "Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm". I have been trying to get his "Guestbook.pl" script to work. As a good newbie, the first thing I did was add "-w" to the shebang line and "use strict;". I was surprised at the nu

Tie and HASHREF's

2001-08-01 Thread Bradley M. Handy
I am wondering about the use of tie with hashes and then returning a reference to that tied hash. If have the following code: ##--- Begin Code #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Apache::Session::DB_File; my %session; tie %session, Apache::Session::DB_File, , {FileName=>'/path/to/db_f

rat book and embperl

2001-08-01 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, I have been working through the rat book. Does anyon know of anything similar to the "Whats new" examples in chapter 6 that do not use embperl. I use SuSE and do not want to mess up my apache installation (am new to this) as it contains the help system. I do not have embperl installed. TI

Re: HTML/CGIPERL/JavaScript related

2001-08-01 Thread Lisa Nyman
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Ryan Davis wrote: > The Javascript way is: > > Just try to click this > link! > > But some people turn their Javascript off, and older browsers might have > trouble. I'd be a better idea to disable the link with the CGI. You could > make the text match your link styl

Re: HTML/CGIPERL/JavaScript related

2001-08-01 Thread Ryan Davis
The Javascript way is: Just try to click this link! But some people turn their Javascript off, and older browsers might have trouble. I'd be a better idea to disable the link with the CGI. You could make the text match your link style, but not have it be a link... hth, Ryan - Original M

Re: Way off topic...

2001-08-01 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
I always felt it dated back to Oppenheim and the first 'bomb' f? up beyond all repair - it was a reference to a storage hanger that they had Francesco -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sub String extraction

2001-08-01 Thread fliptop
Rajeev Rumale wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I need some help I am working on a searching and extarction secipt, where i > need to extract information from HTML and XML files. look at html::parser: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Parser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

SMTP e-mail attachment?

2001-08-01 Thread Helen Dickey
I wrote a html form. I wrote a perl script to 1)take the responses and put them into a pretty html page that the user sees on his/her web browser after submitting and 2)send the same pretty page to my friend Kathy. 1)works 2)sends the HTML code for the pretty page as the e-mail message. I would li

Sub String extraction

2001-08-01 Thread Rajeev Rumale
Hello everybody, I need some help I am working on a searching and extarction secipt, where i need to extract information from HTML and XML files. Its simple I need to find some know tags and gett the information enclosed between them. I faced with a problem when there are multiple ocurances of s