[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: textcounter.pl bugs?!!

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:56:40PM +0530, Suresh Sundriyal (sur...@ya...) wrote:
> Hi,
>    I  was  testing  your  textcounter script & I found a few
>    bugs,  don't  know  whether  these  bugs  were  platform
>    specific or not. well, here goes anyway:-

Thanks for the mail. I've copied this reply to the nms developers' list
so someone will take a closer look at your suggestions.
 
>    1)   On   line   119   of   textcounter script you have a
>    "print  header;"  .  Since  a  textcounter script will be
>    called  with  SSI  only  the output of the script will be
>    included in the HTML that calls the script. So apart from
>    the count you will also get an etra line stating "Content-
>    Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1".

My understanding is that an SSI script _should_ return a Content-type
header. I assume you're using <!--#exec cgi="..."-->.

It may be that Xitami is giving non-standard behavior. We'll look into it.
 
>    2)I  believe $ENV{DOCUMENT_URI} is not implemented by all
>    the  servers.  I  tried  the script on Xitami & it didn't
>    support  it.  I  also  checked  out  Savant's environment
>    variables  &  it  wasn't  there  as  well.  Is  there any
>    standard variable that could be used to get the filename?

This is another case where it's probably Xitami that's doing the wrong thing.
Again, we'll look into it.

>    3)This  one  isn't  exactly  a bug but causes DZsoft perl
>    editor  to  act a bit crazy, here it goes anyway, on line
>    91  $sub  is  used,  DZsoft assumes it to be the reserved
>    word SUB & starts acting weird.

I suggest you pass that back to the developers at DZsoft as a bug in
their editor :)
 
>    4)  This  one is more of a question, is caller() function
>    supported on windows98?

Yes it is.
 
>    And  sice  you  guys  are  trying to make secure scripts,
>    shouldn't   you   guys   disable   Uploads   by   using
>    "$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1" or something?

That's certainly something we should think about.

Thanks for your comments.

Dave...

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