Writing to a field in a cgi stack

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > I'm writing a cgi stack to return some data. It's
>  > working fine and
>  > grabbing data from text files stored locally. In my
>  > browser I can test
>  > that I'm getting the correct data back. However I
>  > was hoping to be
>  > able to use fields in the cgi stack for logging.
>  > When a request comes
>  > in, I have tried using:
>  >     put pQuery into fld "DataIn" of stack "WebData"
>  > I don't get any error message, "the result" is
>  > empty, but nothing
>  > appears in the field.
>  > There is a field of that name, the stack is named
>  > correctly and I know
>  > pQuery has some data in it.
>  >
>  > Am I trying to do something that is impossible from
>  > a CGI script? If
>  > so, I can just write a separate log file, so it's no
>  > big deal, I just
>  > wondered.
>  >
>  > I'm using the Mac OS X engine from Rev 2.9.0-gm-1
>  > and I've tried with
>  > and without the -ui option.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Sarah
>  >
>
>  Apart from the obvious need to 'save' the stack, there
>  are two things that can go wrong: does the httpd user
>  have write access to the stack file, and is it
>  possible that a second cgi script has overwritten the
>  field?
>
>  A simple database server is probably a better option.

Finally figured this out, thank Jan. While I was testing, I had the
CGI stack open, so it seemed logical that it would be able to update
it's own fields, however I hadn't even thought of the save problem.
I'll go a different route.

Thanks,
Sarah