Re: Redirect using .htaccess or ?? ( kinda [OT] )

2004-04-07 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
B McKee wrote: I thought simply putting Redirect permanent index.* /cgi-bin/index.pl [ without mod_rewrite ] Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/index.pl But mod_rewrite would be best - as the OP stated... Over all this is a bad Idea... after a few more months of CGI

Re: Display while forked

2004-04-06 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Jason Normandin wrote: I can't event get output to the browser untill after the fork completes even though I have set $|=1 (turn off the buffer) Display the message BEFORE the fork; research NPH CGI programming. -Sx- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: How to undine a value

2004-04-02 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Wiggins d Anconia wrote: my $k; for($i = 0; $i $c; $i++){ if ( defined $k ){ print $x[$k]; my $t; # intentionally undefined $k = $t; # undefine $k } else { $k = $i; } } Unless this is a contrived example, just increment $i by 2 each loop. If it is contrived then

Re: Script not behaving the same when run under perl and mod_perl

2004-04-02 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Loren Erwin wrote: This might be a question for Apache configuration, but I figured I would start here. http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/help.html#How_to_Report_Problems If your script doesnt work under mod_perl try mod_cgi (If mod_cgi was built into the httpd server.) read:

Re: Output Unicode

2004-04-02 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Octavian Rasnita wrote: I am accessing www.google.com which redirects to www.google.ro, or www.google.com/ncr That is an auto-handshake between your browser and google. It means you've properly set-up what Language(s) you want first and google is trying to be helpful. (In a previous note I said

Re: Output Unicode

2004-04-01 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Octavian Rasnita wrote: It seems that something's wrong because Internet Explorer automaticly chooses UTF-8 encoding, but it doesn't display the text correctly. In fact, I don't know which is the problem because I read the text from the screen using a screen reader (I am blind) but I can read

Re: How to undine a value

2004-04-01 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Richard Heintze wrote: my $t; # intentionally undefined $k = $t; # undefine $k Just for clarity - This isn't undefining it is assignment of nothing to $k; my $nothing; print \n\$nothing\'s Value: $nothing and \$nothing\'s length . length $nothing; my $somthing = 100; $somthing =

Re: BitVector in GET/POST Params

2004-04-01 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Richard Heintze wrote: What if I need more than 32 elements in my bit array? I suppose I could use the first hidden field for the first 32 elements of my array and the next 32 elements are stored in the next hidden field. Uggghhh... Is there an easier way? You must not read the regular beginners

Re: BitVector in GET/POST Params

2004-04-01 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Randy W. Sims wrote: maybe 'perldoc -f vec', 'perldoc -f pack', also http://search.cpan.org/search?query=bit I was only suggesting: man perlpacktut -Sx- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Show/download file from a non public folder

2004-03-26 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Alex A. wrote: Hi, I have files(.jpg, .pdf, .rtf, .xls) in the following non-public folder: /home/alex/documents/ I need to show these files (jpg), or allow the download (.pdf, .rtf ...) from a script for users who already are authenticated and have a session opened in the server (this part is

Re: Show/download file from a non public folder

2004-03-26 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
... I need to show these files (jpg), or allow the download (.pdf, .rtf ... ...) from a script for users who already are authenticated and have a session opened in the server (this part is already working). Gr - I promise to read slower. Set DefaultType application/octet-stream in the

Re: Show/download file from a non public folder

2004-03-26 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Set DefaultType application/octet-stream in the Web Server configs and let the client figure it out or ... Ah, so that's what application/octet-stream is for... I get it now :-). Too bad they didn't name it 'application/punt-to-client' ;-)... LOL, very true that :) I found it works best on

Re: hash hanging up browser

2004-03-22 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Teresa Raymond wrote: Your code has logic/implementation design errors; see below - my $file = param('upload'); $file will be equal to -- therefore the later test !$file will logically fail when it should have succeeded. IE - $file is NOT undefined; maybe you meant length equal zero? @[EMAIL

Re: hash hanging up browser

2004-03-22 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Teresa Raymond wrote: Bill, Thank you so, so much -- Your corrections/advice/help not only helps me this time but also will help me to code/think more clearly in the future. --Teresa Great :) -- _Sx_ http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/ _ perldoc -qa.a | perl -lpe '($_)=m((.*))'

Re: General question about HTML form

2004-03-20 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Bill Tribley wrote: CGI was written from the beginning to not compromise the security of the box on which it runs. Just because a module is secure doesn't mean the resulting application is. -Sx- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating Menus in CGI

2004-03-20 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Mike Ni wrote: http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.04/CGI.pm Also, see: http://modperl.com:9000/hangman.html Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: Creating Menus in CGI

2004-03-19 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
How to create menus using Perl CGI? You would use DHTML or JavaScript -- in either case it is not Perl related. Perl CGI would ONLY be a delivery/code formatter and wold not provide any type of Menu control via CGI. After all the web browser can only speak HTML and the like - not Perl.

Re: Any CPAN module for creating thumbnails?

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
B. Fongo wrote: I wander if here a way to create thumbnails using Perl? I want to implement functionality for my shop program to create a thumbnail of product pictures. A good instance of it may be that of eBay. Users can upload a picture of any dimension for their listing. EBay will

Re: running CGI locally??

2004-03-05 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Freimuth,Robert wrote: Since I'm trying to generate dynamic HTML pages, I thought CGI would be the way to go. However, from what I understand of CGI, it requires a web server and can't be run locally. Since all of my code is in perl, I would prefer to stick with it, if possible. A coworker

Re: running CGI locally??

2004-03-05 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Teresa Raymond wrote: Just wondering what URLs you might have for these: There are web servers written in Perl alsoo =) http://www.earth.com/server/doc/plexus.html http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/sw/tinyhttpd.html Plus there are CPAN Modules to help contruct your own server. -Bill-

Re: Problem installing a module

2004-03-03 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know how can I configure the installation for a perl module if I want to install it using CPAN library? I want to install the perl module DBD::mysql and if I try: perl -MCPAN -e install DBD::mysql; It fails installing the module and it tells me

Re: CGI.pm unsecure / dangerous ?

2004-02-24 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
David Gilden wrote: Is there away some could hijack my script, if so how, or is this sys. adm. not living in the real world? Yes, this script can be hijacked =/ Sorry. print MAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; print MAIL From: $name $email\n; print MAIL Subject: $subject\n\n; Here is

Re: CGI.pm unsecure / dangerous ?

2004-02-24 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
David Gilden wrote: They are going with this one :) http://dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail.php I wanted to specifically address this FormMail issue separately - so there is no miscommunications. All FormMail programs and their derivatives are BAD -- worse then what you wanted to write in my

Re: CGI.pm unsecure / dangerous ?

2004-02-24 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
David Gilden wrote: print MAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; print MAIL From: $name $email\n; print MAIL Subject: $subject\n\n; The From is Hard wired so I dont understand you mention below. In your orginal post it was evaluated as a PARAM CGI input -- therefore it is not hard-wired.

Re: perl running on a handheld

2004-02-22 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Mauricio Cujino wrote: I'm planning on buying a handheld computer (palmtop, sony ,hp...), could somebody recommend on a model/brand I can use to write and execute perlcode? Zaurus. http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8safe=offq=Zaurusspell=1 -Sx- -- To unsubscribe,

Re: connectivity b/w a form in html and database using perl

2003-06-02 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Annie wrote: I have a form with two textfields ..one for login and one for password and two buttons reset and submit. on submit i need to verify the login and password from a table in mysql and want to retrieve the corresponding information of the