[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] TFmail get error

[Jonathan S. <jn...@ge...>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 06:39, webmaster wrote:
> Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 17:17, webmaster wrote:
> > 
> >> webmaster wrote:
> >> 
> >> 1. conditionally rewrite the url to the TFmail script if request
> >> method is not post.
> >> 
> >> 2. create error405.php
> > 
> > It could be done by changing the single line:
> > 
> > die 'request method must be "POST"';
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > print $treq->cgi()->header(-status => 405);
> > exit;
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I tried to implement it, but the results were a
> little strange. The response from the server after the change was
> "HTTP/1.1 405 OK". Only the numeric code has changed; the text message
> is the same. That's a bit confusing, I think.
> 

Yes, it is server dependent on what the string is - changing the numeric
405 to the quoted string '405 Request Method Not Allowed' will do the
trick.

> I also tested it by changing the code in the script to 403, and got
> similar results: "HTTP/1.1 403 OK".
> 
> > and creating the appropriate 405 error page if required.
> 
> I've configured Apache to use 405.php as my error page for 405 errors,
> but it is not used when I access TFmail with GET.
> 
> > it would be better to be have a redirect configured in the .trc file
> > - or indeed have TFmail.pl actually have another potential template
> > that could be filled out from the GET request query string - that way
> > it would be possible for people to create links to a form with some
> > of the fields filled in or with a different config or other things
> > that I can't think of at the moment.
> 
> Those could indeed be very useful.
> 

Well the latest development version of TFmail.pl in the CVS now has this
functionality, we are aiming to make a release sometime this week.  If
you have access to CVS then you can get it using the instructions here:

    http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=39625

for some reason the "browse cvs repository" function isn't up to date.


     
> > Anyway thanks for your input
> 
> Sure. I hope I didn't just add more noise.