Re: CGIDEV Question -- WEB400

On the new system, when I attempt to open one of the /cgi-bin/MYPGM.PGM 's
my browser does not know what to do with it and tries to save it to my hard
drive instead of opening it.  It's like it must be missing the content-type
value in the HTML.

My first guess would be that you're missing the ScriptAlias directive (orEXEC on the orignal server) so the web server is tryign to download thethe program to your PC instead of running the program to get output.


Might be worth checking it out.

The content-type being the problem seems unlikely. If content-type ismissing, I'd expect the server to return an error, not open up a downloadwindow! The symptom would fit it giving the WRONG content-type, but thatseems unlikely if you haven't changed the programs. If you want to seeexactly what content-type and other data is returned, you can use TELNETto run the HTTP session manually. Here's how:


a) Open up a "run" prompt on your PC (Start -> Run)

b) Type "telnet newsystem.example.com 80" (to connect to port 80 on thenew system.... change the domain name as appropriate)


c) In the TELNET session type:

    GET /cgi-bin/MYPGM.PGM<enter>
    Host: newsystem.example.com<enter>
    <enter>

d) The server should respond with the document for download, including thecontent-type. If the content-type is wrong or missing, then it could bethat the CGI programs aren't setting it correctly.

Now, it's been a long time since I played around with CGIDEV2, but it seems
to me that I remember you had to have some environment things set up for it,
or maybe a subsystem running for it?,  something in the background. Maybe it
was just as simple as porting the CGIDEV2 service programs?

You CAN set up a separate server instance for CGIDEV2, but it's notnecessary and I've always thought it was a bad idea since it makesfirewall management much more difficult, and requires extra resources fromyour system.

A lot of people do this for testing. That way, they can take down theCGIDEV2 instance, and change it's parameters, and experiment withoutaffecting the main server.


But, it's certainly not a requirement.