Buggy post url cmd - socket stays open

[Pierre Sahores]

Hi Alain,

Try this witch works for me perfectly from MC 2.32 to 2.5:

>  set httpheaders to "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" & return
>  post fld 1 to url myURL

Hope this help.

Best,


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 05:19, Alain Farmer wrote:
> Hello Scott and y'all,
> 
> I have a persistant problem with the "post url" syntax
> of MetaCard 2.5, as I did with 2.4 as well. The client
> is a MetaCard 2.5 stack with the following handler in
> a button :
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put "http://www.giguere.uqam.ca/" into myHost
>   put myHost & "XA/MenusXApost.cgi" into myURL
>   if the openSockets is empty then
>     post field 1 to url myURL
>     if the result is not empty
>     then answer the result
>     else answer it
>   else
>     beep
>   end if
> end mouseUp
> 
> The CGI program on the server-side is a
> HyperCard-based CGI which performs marvelously. It
> returns the minimum set of HTTP headers required by
> MetaCard. The proof of this is that the first click on
> the above button indeed returns what it is supposed
> to. Btw, I am using Webstar 2.1 on MacOS 8.6 on the
> server-side.
> 
> The problem arises after the first click of this
> button. On the second and subsequent clicks of this
> button, the handler beeps, e.g. the openSockets is not
> empty which, IOW, means that the socket remains open
> after the first click. In fact, it (the socket)
> *never* closes, and this inhibits it from doing its
> thing more than once.
> 
> My diagnostic, therefore, is that there is a bug in
> MC's post command whereby the socket that is opened is
> never closed. Please fix this *bug* by making the
> socket close automatically ASAP after the reply is
> received by the MC client. Or give us the new syntax
> we need to *close* the open sockets ourselves.
> 
> If you disbelieve my account, then feel free to
> download a copy of my client stack which exhibits this
> problem :
> 
>   http://ufp.uqam.ca/MC/test_url_stuff.mc.zip
> 
> Thank you for your time and earnest work,  :)
> 
> Alain Farmer
> 
> NB: This is relatively URGENT for me. Please respond
> as soon as you can [Scott]. It has nothing to do with
> the interface; this is clearly an engine issue.
> 
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Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores

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