cgi help

[Richard R. Sivernell]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:39:44 +0000
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:

> It helps if you can hold off setting the reply headers until you
> know whether you have an error or not.  If you can, then you can
> force the reply to be plain text, which makes debugging a bit
> easier, in general.  It can be hard to do the right thing with
> an error message when you've already output 10,000 bytes of HTML
> and you don't know what part of the page you're on.
> 
> In python, which I've used a lot for that purpose, my pattern on
> error goes something like this:
> 
> import cgi
> 
> def cgiput(s):
>     ofile.write("%s\r\n" % s)
> 
> try:
> 	<stuff>
> except Exception, e:
> 	if <debugging>:
> 		cgiput("content-type: text/plain")
> 	cgiput("Status: 500 Internal Server Error")
> 	cgiput("")
> 	cgiput("Cannot parse the PATH_INFO: %s" % pi)
> 	sys.exit(0)
> 
> If I'm debugging, this comes out as text, and I usually write
> a whole bunch of other stuff too.
> 
> You can play with this in various ways, of course.  YMMV.
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:46:23PM +0000, Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
> > List
> > 
> >    I am now able to get access to my cgi program, but the error msgs that 
> > are returned are at best pathetic. Does any one know how to set return 
> > messages to give detailed info. tring to debug cgi program.
> > 
> > cheers
> 
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Kevin

   Thanks for the reply, basicly that is what I have got it to do.
But this a painf=ull process,<g> I am using c++ and have
a html << #def as cout with goodies.

thanks again  cheers
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Rick Sivernell
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