[Tclhttpd-users] Re: cgi problems.

[brent w. <bw...@in...>]

Hmm - attached are a couple of patches that may help cleanup properly
in error cases.  The one for httpd.tcl seems mandatory, but the one
for cgi.tcl I can't see how it fixes the "Too many cgi" problem.

>>>petrus vloet said:
 > Hi Brent,
 > 
 > Although cgi is running I have the feeling it is not so stabil as before.
 > 
 > I adapted Dave Maggianos Bugtracking Database and wrapped it and have now +/
     - 15 users accessing this tool
 > 
 > One of them reported following error:
 > 
 > Got the error Service Temporarily Unavailable
 > while trying to obtain /oca/a/bugt.cgi.
 > Too many CGI's
 > 
 > The error file got many such entries:
 > 
 > [07/Nov/2000:15:34:57] nosock bgerror {Tue Nov 07 15:34:57 MET 2000
 > can't unset "data": no such variable
 >     while executing
 > "unset data"
 >     (procedure "HttpdCloseFinal" line 14)
 >     invoked from within
 > "HttpdCloseFinal $sock"
 >     (procedure "Httpd_SockClose" line 44)
 >     invoked from within
 > "Httpd_SockClose sock8 1 timeout"
 >     ("after" script)}
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:35:16] sock8 timeout  /oca/a/bugt.cgi
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:35:49] sock8 timeout
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:35:49] sock8 CloseError {can not find channel named "sock8"
     }
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:35:49] nosock bgerror {Tue Nov 07 15:35:49 MET 2000
 > can't unset "data": no such variable
 >     while executing
 > "unset data"
 >     (procedure "HttpdCloseFinal" line 14)
 >     invoked from within
 > "HttpdCloseFinal $sock"
 >     (procedure "Httpd_SockClose" line 44)
 >     invoked from within
 > "Httpd_SockClose sock8 1 timeout"
 >     ("after" script)}
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:36:07] sock8 timeout  /oca/a/bugt.cgi
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:36:08] sock8 Error 504 /oca/a/bugt.cgi {Too many CGI's} /oc
     a/a/bugt.cgi
 >  [07/Nov/2000:15:36:16] sock8 Error 504 /oca/a/bugt.cgi {Too many CGI's} /oc
     a/a/bugt.cgi
 > 
 > Do these entries cause an unproper cleaning of the Cgi array?
 > 
 > What can cause an overflow ?
 > 
 > The operations do not take that long.
 > 
 > For what do I have to look for in David Maggianos code.
 > 
 > Forget to close a socket for example?
 > 
 > Another indices might be that rather often there comes a popup window with t
     he message
 > 
 > ... contained no data ..
 > 
 > I will not restart server and bugt to clean up everything.
 > 
 > I'm getting acustomed with your debug URL.
 > 
 > For debugging purposes I can print out some additional stuff when this happe
     ns again in the future.
 > 
 > Piet
 > 
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 > 
 > 
 > 

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