Rant on my favourite topics : LC server with a side-dish of on-rev :-)

Sat Nov 18 20:17:57 EST 2017

Thanks Matthias.

See my reply to Ralf re. where to find ArrayToJSON etc.

I guess I could install my own version of LC server in each cgi-bin - 
but I play around with a lot of add-on and sub-domains - some within 
public-html, some not - and it just feels like unnecessay extra work to 
install (and remember to update) those. on-ev should simply install a 
more recent version as their default server engine. And why should I - 
and every other user of on-rev - need to do this additional crap ?

7.1.0 was released over 2 years ago. The last release of anything in the 
'7' series was 18 months ago.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of bug fixes since then.

I'll submit a support request asking for the default to move up to a 
non-prehistoric version, and throw in a request for some kind of 
multi-version support. Even if it was only what HostM does it would be a 
help, and if they added a configuration to select which of the 
series-latest releases should be chosen it would be great.

For anyone who doesn't use HostM - they use the latest released version 
for .lc scripts (currently 8.1.7), but by default support script file 
extensions .lc6, .lc7, .lc8 etc. to specify which series to use - and 
will then use the latest release within it). Extending this scheme by 
making it easy to say, e.g. .lc maps to .lc8, would make it much more 
tractable to always use the latest, without renaming files all over the 
place if you ever want to switch.

-- Alex.

On 18/11/2017 11:28, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
> Alex,
>
> you are not alone. I  noticed something similar with LcServer 7.10 on the On-Rev server Tio.
> $_post arrays where empty when data was formatted with libUrlMultipartFormData,
> while $_post_raw showed the content. So it was not possible to post larger binary data to LcServer.
>
> I send a support request already in April this year informing the On-Rev team that the installed LcServer version is not able to handle http posts when the data was formatted with libUrlMultipartFormData.
> I decided to install my own version of LcServer (in my case LC9-dp6 at that time) using the .htaccess method, which solved my problem immediately.
>
> The only caveat: If you have several add-on domains and each domain uses its own root folder under public_html, e.g.
> public_html/domain1
> public_html/domain2
> or whatever the folder names are, you have to install your custom LcServer for each domain separately into the cgi-bin folder of each of that root folders
> public_html/domain1/cgi-bin
> public_html/domain2/cgi-bin
>
> If all of your domains use public_html as the  root folder then just install it into
>
> public_html/cgi-bin
>
>
> My .htaccess looks like this, in case you are interested. This version work also with HostM accounts, while the htaccess example in the LcServer lesson doesn´t.
>
> #
> RewriteEngine on
> # this suPHP…  btw allows to set php settings using a php.ini file which is stored in public_html folder
> # it is not needed on HostM accounts, because PHP settings can set in cPanel there.
> suPHP_ConfigPath /home/YOURACCOUNTNAME/public_html/
> <Files php.ini>
> order allow,deny
> deny from all
> </Files>
>
> Options +ExecCGI
> # path the the LcServer executable
> Action custom-livecode /cgi-bin/livecode-server-9dp6/livecode-server
> <FilesMatch ".+\.lc$">
> SetHandler custom-livecode
> </FilesMatch>
> #
>
> The permissions of the folders and the LcServer executable are set to 755. The driver and external files  are set to 644.
>
>
> Maybe this will “calm" you down a little bit. ;)
> Have a nice weekend.
>
> Just forgot: Would you please be so kind and share the information which library does contain the  ArrayToJSON() function? Did you already try it out using it on LcServer?
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias
>
>
>> Am 18.11.2017 um 00:53 schrieb Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
>>
>> This is a bit of a rant, so if you're not in the mood, switch off now :-)
>>
>> I will (when I've calmed down and organised myself :-) submit bug reports.
>>
>> So, normally, I don't have much time for my favourite hobby of scripting in LC, which lately has been mostly LCServer for a couple of simple websites I have built for friends. But this week I had lots of time set aside, because I've (finally) convinced one of those website owners to do her own maintenance / updating of the site.
>>
>> The site has many images - which I have typically put into my desktop copy of the site, tried them out - and then synch'ed those up to the real site. However, for the site owner to upload photos, I needed to revive my script for uploading files (specifically images), which hasn't been used in a while. And indeed, may have been played around with in the meantime - so I can't be sure that this is exactly a "once-working" script.
>>
>> It was written a long time ago - back before there was any built-in way to parse multi-part form content - so I did my own parsing of the POSTed data (actually, I think someone else did it first, and I copied that :-)
>>
>> However - that no longer works. Using $_POST_RAW fails when the uploaded file is a jpg image - it works ok for text file, simple PNGs etc. - but fails dramatically when the file is proper binary. Test script of
>>
>>> <?lc
>>> set the errormode to inline
>>> put "raw has" && the number of bytes in $_POST_RAW && "bytes<br>"
>>> ?>
>> fails with
>>
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/tweedly.co.uk/tryme.lc <http://tweedly.co.uk/tryme.lc>"
>>   row 3, col 18: Chunk: can't get source string
>>   row 3, col 18: Chunk: error in chunk expression
>> .....
>>
>> when the POSTed data includes a JPG file.
>>
>>
>> While google'ing around for that, I ran into the Livecode lesson on this topic
>>
>> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4070/l/40708-how-to-upload-a-file-with-livecode-server <http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4070/l/40708-how-to-upload-a-file-with-livecode-server>
>>
>> which uses the (newer) $_FILES array which does the complex parsing of the file info from the form - a big improvement !! And indeed, the example there works does work. BUT - it seems that although it correctly parses out the file information, it loses any other POSTed values. So if your form consists *ONLY* of one or more files to upload - you're good. But if you pass any other values (e.g. folder you want it to go to, meta-info, passwords, etc.) that is all lost. Which basically means it's unusable for any real scenario.
>>
>>
>>
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