Cannot get CGI directive on INETS to work

Fri May 29 19:40:49 CEST 2009

Hmm,

Not even a remote interest in this? Is it too early to think about
reporting this as a bug?

/Carl

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Carl McDade <carlmcdade@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Windows XP sp3
> Python (python.exe)
> MinGW
> GNU Bash for Windows (sh.exe)
> Erlang R13B
>
>
> I am running the inets examples and have not had any luck with getting
> CGI to work. The exec.shtml parses but the command tag  #exec cgi=""
> is not functioning.
>
> exec.shtml:
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>/exec.shtml</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <H1>/exec.shtml</H1>
> <PRE>
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/printenv.sh"-->
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/python.py"-->
> </PRE>
>
>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> python.py:
>
> #!C:/Python30/python.exe -u
>
> print '<html><head>'
> print '<title>My Page</title>'
> print '</head><body>'
> print '<h1>Powers of two</h1>\n<ol>'
> for n in range(1,11):
>  print '<li>'+str(2**n)+'</li>'
> print '</ol></body></html>'
>
> printenv.sh:
>
> #!C:/MinGW/bin/bash
>
> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo ""
> echo "<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>OS Environment</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY><PRE>"
> env
> echo "</PRE></BODY></HTML>"
>
>
> inets conf:
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ c:/var/tmp/server_root/cgi-bin/
>
> mime.types:
>
> application/x-sh                sh
> application/x-python    py
>
>
> All the other CGI directives (include... etc.) work but exec only
> leads to this dead end.
>
> /exec.shtml
>
> [an error occurred while processing this directive]
>
>
> Has anyone ever gotten this to work? or is there a bug in the system?
>
> --
> Carl McDade
> Content Management Systems Consultant
> www.hiveminds.co.uk
> ________________________
>

-- 
Carl McDade
Content Management Systems Consultant
www.hiveminds.co.uk
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