tclhttpd-users

[Tclhttpd-users] Some CVS updates to tclhttpd

[Brent W. <bre...@in...>]

Thanks to some patches and bug reports, I've made a few fixes
and committed them to the SF CVS repository.  If I'm giving out
credit incorrectly, let me know.

        * bin/httpd.tcl: Fixed setting of auto_path in the standard
        install configuration so that the limit and crypt packages can
        be found (Peter Farmer)
        * lib/doc.tcl: Added Doc_RegisterRoot so the cgi domain can set up
        the directory mapping used by DocAccessHook. (Peter Summers)
        * lib/cgi.tcl: Fixed "extra timer" bug found by Petrus that could cause
        erroneous aborts of CGI connections. (Petrus Vloet)
        Added use of Doc_RegisterRoot so DocAccessHook works right for
        /cgi-bin directories outside the htdocs hierarchy.  (Peter Summers)
        Eliminated extra / build-up in /cgi/bin pathnames (Peter Summers)

--	Brent Welch	<bre...@in...>
	http://www.interwoven.com

[Tclhttpd-users] cgiexec arguments

[Jeff M. <je...@in...>]

Hi,

I  have done something completely stupid. I am doing some cgi (using my copied
version of CgiExec) and I see that if I have arguments starting with the special
exec characters
(e.g., <, >, |) the open call treats those  like pipe redirects, etc. e.g.:

set arglist [list -subject "<some subject" -body "|"]
return [open "|[list $Cgi(tclsh) $script] $arglist" r+]

Is there any way around this?
(short of putting a space before any special characters in the arg list like:
foreach a $arglist {
 regsub "^(\[<>2|])" $a { \1} a
 lappend l $a
    }
)

Thanks,
Jeff