Metacard cgi feedback

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Wed Feb 13 20:10:01 EST 2002


At 3:40 pm -0800 13/2/02, David Frank wrote:
>I am using Robert Brenstein's excellent Mac cgi MC
>script, tweaked so that it will post student homework
>grades to my Mac server. It works well, but I am lost
>on how to have the client MC script pick up the
>cgifeedbackreply that the cgi produces after posting.
>If I post to the cgi from a real browser (Netscape), I
>get the reply back just fine.
>
>I thought the reply might be captured in an "it"
>container in the MC client, but nothing shows up
>there. Is it supposed to?
>
>My question is: how do you script that protocol in the
>client MC stack to pick up the reply, or have the
>stack or card behaving like a browser so that it can
>get the reply?

This should work as you describe -- with the reply in "it". Try with 
the 2.4.2 beta to see if it behaves any different. If not, if you can 
send me the cgi script, I'll take a look at it.

Cheers
Dave Cragg



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