[freeside] Re: Error: Illegal or empty (text)

[ivan]

Does setting "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off" (available in
Apache::ASP 2.55 and later) fix this problem for you?

-- 
_ivan


On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:57:22PM +0000, scott at ruralnetwork.net wrote:
> Below is an update on what I found out on the interaction between Freeside, 
> CGI.pm >= 3.00 and Apache::ASP.  For now, I would suggest using HTML::Mason 
> install of Apache::ASP with Freeside 1.4.1. 
> 
> --
> Scott Langley
> scott at ruralnetwork.net
> Systems Administrator
> Rural Network Services 
> 
> ----------Forwarded message ----------
> From: scott at ruralnetwork.net
> To: Josh Chamas <josh at chamas.com>
> Subject: Re: Apache::ASP grabbing STDIN
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:59:14 GMT 
> 
> Josh Chamas writes: 
> 
> >I did this hack for Apache::ASP so that people could more easily port
> >CGI script by just wrapping <% %> around them.  Since Apache::ASP calls
> >read() and consumes the input, I don't see how I could get it to work
> >with Apache::Request, but I am not sure it is something developer.   
> >
> >One work around for those having problems with CGI might be to use
> >this API instead:   
> >
> >   $query = new CGI(\*STDIN);   
> >
> >Scott, does this work for your situation?  Can you get the Apache::ASP
> >examples to work with this change on your installation?   
> >
> >Regards,   
> >
> >Josh
> >________________________________________________________________________
> >Josh Chamas, Founder    | NodeWorks - http://www.nodeworks.com
> >Chamas Enterprises Inc. | NodeWorks Directory - http://dir.nodeworks.com
> >http://www.chamas.com   | Apache::ASP - http://www.apache-asp.org   
> >
> 
> When I try what you suggested in the Apache::ASP cgi.htm example, I get
> a runaway httpd process that consumes around 90% of the CPU and no ouput 
> returned to the browser.  The last lines that appears in the Apache error 
> log are: 
> 
> [error] [asp] [3813] [debug] [1079816560.7241;0.0015] [cgi.htm] - 
> Script_OnStart /var/www/asp/eg/cgi.htm in global.asa
> [error] [asp] [3813] [debug] [1079816560.7247;0.0006] executing 
> CODE(0x85d92e8) 
> 
> This example uses CGI this way:
> use CGI qw(:standard); 
> 
> When I try what you suggested in the real Apache::ASP application that I 
> want to work, the ISP customer management software package Freeside,
> http://www.sisd.com/freeside/, I get: 
> 
> [error] [asp] [2098] [error] Can't locate object method "READLINE" via 
> package "Apache::ASP::Request" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CGI.pm line 510. 
> <--> , /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Apache/ASP.pm line 1518 
> 
> This code uses CGI this way:
> use CGI; 
> 
> where:
> $query = new CGI(\*STDIN); 
> 
> is called in the Script_OnStart method of the application's global.asa file.
> Both of these tests were done with Apache::ASP 2.57 and CGI 3.04. 
> 
> Do you have any other suggetsions? 
> 
> --
> Scott Langley
> scott at ruralnetwork.net
> Systems Administrator
> Rural Network Services 

-- 
_ivan