Re: [Eclass-users] What is the difference between Karrigell.exe and httpservere.exe?

[Kevin O. <ke...@tu...>]

Hi BJ,

On Dec 8, 2003, at 2:57 AM, BJ Cameron wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> What is the difference between Karrigell.exe and the httpserver.exe? 
> (btw I
> am using 2.5b3 on a w2k machine)

Karrigell.exe is basically a new server program I'm using that lets me 
execute Python scripts on CD without making them executables. This will 
let me extend the features of the CD version without considerably 
bloating the overall size of the CD.

> I have noticed that the autorun.inf now points to Karrigell.exe and not
> httpserver.exe. I have tried using the Karrigell.exe several times, 
> but it
> doesn't want to open the swish-e search page.
>
> I am now getting python errors when using the Karrigell.exe. (attached)
> Ideas? Comments? Also the httpserver now seems to be running rrrrreal 
> slow.

httpserver should no longer be used, consider it an old version. As for 
the Karrigell problems, one thing I saw several times is that it was 
looking for FrontPage files that didn't exist, which was causing a 
'crash' in Python. This is really strange. The strange thing is that 
even though they don't exist, IE is requesting them so it must think 
that it exists for some reason. I can probably make a workaround so 
that this 'fails' more gracefully. (i.e. does not produce an error) It 
seems to always happen with DOC files.

Hmmm... This may explain the annoying problems that we have with Word 
asking for a name and password when you click to view a document. Maybe 
what is happening is that IE is programmed to, whenever you access a 
Word document (or office document) over the web, check the server to 
see if the document can be edited, and if so, provide the 
username/password prompt. Since this functionality would only work with 
FrontPage, it looks for a FrontPage information file which in this case 
doesn't exist.

In any case, I'll try and patch this up and get a fix out in the next 
couple days.

Thanks,

Kevin