Apache::ASP grabbing STDIN (fwd)

[scott at ruralnetwork.net]

Hey Ivan, 

Perhaps you would be the best person to follow up with the author of 
Apache::ASP on how it's used in Freeside? 

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Scott Langley
scott at ruralnetwork.net
Systems Administrator
Rural Network Services 

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:52:29 -0800
From: Josh Chamas <josh at chamas.com>
To: scott at ruralnetwork.net
Subject: Re: Apache::ASP grabbing STDIN 


Thanks for the follow up Scott.  The solution seems to be fine,
the only problem being that the $Request->Form data will not be
set up correctly for the Apache::ASP request, but besides that
things should be fine.  I should have thought of this config for
you myself, but its a new one. :( 

If you would not mind sharing, how do you use Freeside with Apache::ASP?
I would like to research this further on my own time so that this will
work for you. 

Regards, 

Josh 

 

scott at ruralnetwork.net wrote:
> 
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> From: scott at ruralnetwork.net
> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> Subject: Re: Error: Illegal or empty (text)
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:00:12 GMT
> Yes, that does work!  (That is, adding "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead 
> Off" to the httpd.conf file, which I put right after the "PerlSetVar 
> Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/" statement; and then putting 
> /usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa back the way it was before 
> with:
> $cgi = new CGI;
> instead of the  workaround I tried of:
> $cgi = new CGI(\*STDIN);
> Similarly, the original Apache::ASP cgi.htm example also works when 
> using the "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off" directive.
> Thanks Ivan!
> I'll pass this on to the mod-perl list, as well.
> -- 
> Scott Langley
> scott at ruralnetwork.net
> Systems Administrator
> Rural Network Services
> ivan writes: 
> 
>> Does setting "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off" (available in
>> Apache::ASP 2.55 and later) fix this problem for you? 
>> -- 
>> _ivan  
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:57:22PM +0000, scott at ruralnetwork.net wrote: 
>> 
>>> Below is an update on what I found out on the interaction between 
>>> Freeside, CGI.pm >= 3.00 and Apache::ASP.  For now, I would suggest 
>>> using HTML::Mason install of Apache::ASP with Freeside 1.4.1.  
>>> -- 
>>> Scott Langley
>>> scott at ruralnetwork.net
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Rural Network Services  
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>>> From: scott at ruralnetwork.net
>>> To: Josh Chamas <josh at chamas.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Apache::ASP grabbing STDIN
>>> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:59:14 GMT  
>>> Josh Chamas writes:  
>>> >I did this hack for Apache::ASP so that people could more easily port
>>> >CGI script by just wrapping <% %> around them.  Since Apache::ASP calls
>>> >read() and consumes the input, I don't see how I could get it to work
>>> >with Apache::Request, but I am not sure it is something developer.   >
>>> >One work around for those having problems with CGI might be to use
>>> >this API instead:   >
>>> >   $query = new CGI(\*STDIN);   >
>>> >Scott, does this work for your situation?  Can you get the Apache::ASP
>>> >examples to work with this change on your installation?   >
>>> >Regards,   >
>>> >Josh
>>> >________________________________________________________________________  
>>> 
>>> >Josh Chamas, Founder    | NodeWorks - http://www.nodeworks.com
>>> >Chamas Enterprises Inc. | NodeWorks Directory - 
>>> http://dir.nodeworks.com
>>> >http://www.chamas.com   | Apache::ASP - http://www.apache-asp.org   > 
>>> When I try what you suggested in the Apache::ASP cgi.htm example, I get
>>> a runaway httpd process that consumes around 90% of the CPU and no 
>>> ouput returned to the browser.  The last lines that appears in the 
>>> Apache error log are:  
>>> [error] [asp] [3813] [debug] [1079816560.7241;0.0015] [cgi.htm] - 
>>> Script_OnStart /var/www/asp/eg/cgi.htm in global.asa
>>> [error] [asp] [3813] [debug] [1079816560.7247;0.0006] executing 
>>> CODE(0x85d92e8)  
>>> This example uses CGI this way:
>>> use CGI qw(:standard);  
>>> When I try what you suggested in the real Apache::ASP application 
>>> that I want to work, the ISP customer management software package 
>>> Freeside,
>>> http://www.sisd.com/freeside/, I get:  
>>> [error] [asp] [2098] [error] Can't locate object method "READLINE" 
>>> via package "Apache::ASP::Request" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CGI.pm 
>>> line 510. <--> , /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Apache/ASP.pm line 
>>> 1518  
>>> This code uses CGI this way:
>>> use CGI;  
>>> where:
>>> $query = new CGI(\*STDIN);  
>>> is called in the Script_OnStart method of the application's 
>>> global.asa file.
>>> Both of these tests were done with Apache::ASP 2.57 and CGI 3.04.  
>>> Do you have any other suggetsions?  
>>> -- 
>>> Scott Langley
>>> scott at ruralnetwork.net
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Rural Network Services 
>>  
>> 
>> -- 
>> _ivan
>  
> 
> -- 
> Scott Langley
> scott at ruralnetwork.net
> Systems Administrator
> Rural Network Services