Can't retrieve a text file from a remote CGI folder

[Dave Cragg]

On 11 Apr 2013, at 03:37, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> Oh geez. Yeah, it does. I've been at this so long I can't read any more. Thanks.
> 
> Maybe you can tell me what's wrong with this then? Sent from a stack on my Mac:
> 
> put "http://NAME:PASS@hyperactivesw.com/cgi-bin/log.txt" into tURL
> put url tUrl into fld 1
> 
> Is it that you can't directly read text files from the cgi folder? I don't usually do that, but someone else had the same problem so I started testing it.

I think the cgi-bin folder can only used to execute scripts. If the server is Apache, it's set in the Apache conf file. Can you use another cgi script to return the contents of the text file?

Dave