NCSA httpd 1.0

Rob McCool

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Dec 13, 1993, 1:07:14 AM12/13/93

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NCSA httpd 1.0 is now available at URL http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/ or
via FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Web/ncsa_httpd/httpd_1.0.

This is the first non-alpha release, which explains why the version number
is actually readable. If you have been waiting to upgrade your server,
this should be the release to do it with.

Several minor things have changed since 1.0a5, please see the
upgrade notes at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/Upgrade.html if you are
upgrading a server.

Really quickly:

o the htbin stuff is no longer distributed, CGI/1.0 versions of your old
favorites are included instead

o the NCSA script interface (htbin) is still supported via
OldScriptAlias, with the default ScriptAlias pointing to CGI scripts.

o A CGI version of imagemap is included, the only differences
being that you have to manually set the config. file location if your
ServerRoot is not /usr/local/etc/httpd, and that the file references in
*.map are virtual instead of physical now.

o The AddType directive now works

o NCSA POST scripts have REMOTE_HOST set

As usual, comments/questions to ht...@ncsa.uiuc.edu

--Rob

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Rob McCool, ro...@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Software Development Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...
<A HREF="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~robm/sg.html">A must see.</A>

Reinhard Doelz

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Dec 14, 1993, 1:59:30 AM12/14/93

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In article <2eh0qi$h...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, ro...@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool) writes:
|>
|> NCSA httpd 1.0 is now available at URL http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/ or
|> via FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Web/ncsa_httpd/httpd_1.0.
|>
|> This is the first non-alpha release, which explains why the version number
|> is actually readable. If you have been waiting to upgrade your server,
|> this should be the release to do it with.
|>

...

|>
|> Really quickly:
|>
|> o the htbin stuff is no longer distributed, CGI/1.0 versions of your old
|> favorites are included instead
|>

<title> User desperated </title>
Since I upgraded my server to 1.0 it dies on method POST. I am writing
a User Interface and... it never shows me anything but the RESET
and SUBMIT buttons! Even the examples are no longer working. I refer to

<a href=http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/examples.html> Last example </a>.

The Idea there is to have a
<FORM ACTION="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test-cgi" METHOD="POST">
And there I can have a Press Button, invoked as <p>
<inPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="button" VALUE="on"> Press me. <P>

That should give me the value button=on as argv[0] with argc = 1.
If I use the submit,

</FORM>

I get the output
<PRE> CGI/1.0 test script report:

argc is 0. argv is .

SERVER_SOFTWARE = NCSA/1.0
SERVER_NAME = hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu
GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.0
SERVER_PROTOCOL = HTTP/1.0
SERVER_PORT = 80
REQUEST_METHOD = POST
HTTP_ACCEPT = text/plain, application/x-html, application/html, text/x-html, text/html, audio/basic, audio/x-aiff, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/tiff, image/x-portable-anymap, image/x-portable-bitmap, image/x-portable-graymap, image/x-portable-pixmap, image/x-rgb, image/rgb, image/x-xbitmap, image/x-xpixmap, image/xwd, image/x-xwd, image/x-xwindowdump, video/mpeg, video/quicktime, video/x-sgi-movie, application/postscript, application/x-dvi, message/rfc822, application/x-latex,

application/x-tex, application/x-texinfo, application/x-troff, application/x-troff-man, application/x-troff-me, application/x-troff-ms, text/richtext, text/tab-separated-values, text/x-setext, */*
PATH_INFO =
PATH_TRANSLATED =
SCRIPT_NAME = /cgi-bin/test-cgi
QUERY_STRING =
REMOTE_HOST = biox.embnet.unibas.ch
REMOTE_ADDR = 131.152.8.1
REMOTE_USER =
AUTH_TYPE =
CONTENT_TYPE = application/x-www-form-urlencoded
CONTENT_LENGTH = 9
</PRE>

I am totally confused. Is POST no longer working?
Any help appreciated
Regards
Reinhard

Jaap Romers

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Dec 15, 1993, 4:09:10 PM12/15/93

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In <1993Dec14.0...@comp.bioz.unibas.ch> do...@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes:
>|>
>|> o the htbin stuff is no longer distributed, CGI/1.0 versions of your old
>|> favorites are included instead
>|>
>

>Since I upgraded my server to 1.0 it dies on method POST. I am writing

I noticed the same problems with my mail-script (derived from mailin.c).

What I did ( maybe not correct, but allah, it works) was using method GET
and parse the stuff with environment-variable QUERY_STRING.

jaap

Rob McCool

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Dec 15, 1993, 9:42:25 PM12/15/93

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These problems are a result of using the CGI interface on an /htbin
script.... PLEASE read http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Upgrade.html and use
OldScriptAlias to access your /htbin scripts.

Rob McCool

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Dec 15, 1993, 10:01:16 PM12/15/93

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Rob McCool (ro...@ncsa.uiuc.edu) wrote:

: These problems are a result of using the CGI interface on an /htbin

: script.... PLEASE read http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Upgrade.html and use
: OldScriptAlias to access your /htbin scripts.

That should be http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/Upgrade.html