Re: CGI::Push Only Works With Netscape. Now What?

[merlyn]

See my column on that.

(Didn't we just do this a few days ago? Yeah, we did.)

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[sierrathedog04]

Thanks for all the help, people. In order not to violate Merlyn's copyright I am not going to repost his code here, but I wonder whether perhaps his article contains a typo. Line 55 reads

"=55= my $out = IO::File->new($DIR_html,"w") or

Shouldn't this line actually be

"=55= my $out = IO::File->new($URL_html,"w") or

If someone could verify the correct code for me I would appreciate it.

[merlyn]

No, $URL_html is the view from the browser. You're doing a unix file open, so it needs to be the view from the Unix side, $DIR_html. That's explained in the column. You did read the column, right?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[sierrathedog04]

Yes, Merlyn, but I became confused and not as a result of anything you wrote.

In fact, you do say in the article "URL_html contains the same name as $DIR_html, but mapped into the webserver's space so that we can redirect the client's browser to the results file."

The lesson here is that every static web page has a dual nature. It possesses a physical path in the file system, and it possesses a URL under the http protocol.

Clearly, it would have been a mistake for me to attempt to try to pass a URL to IO::File->new, which is what my proposed "correction" would have done.