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Re: [cobalt-developers] mailer cgi

TIA,

When you enable a user to use cgi, that means that you can run cgi scripts from 
the /home/user/cgi-bin directory. (I think that only .cgi and .pl files can be 
used though I'm not sure)

About mailing forms you can use the following perl script:


#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;

my $parameter = $q->param("parameter");

print $q->header( "text/html" );
print <<END_OF_HEADER;
<html>
<head><title>sending email</title></head>
<body>

END_OF_HEADER

open MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" or displayError("Could not open 
sendmail");

print MAIL <<END_OF_MAIL;
To: $email_address
Subject: $subject

You have filled the form with the following parameter: $parameter

END_OF_MAIL

print $q->p("Thank you.");
print $q->end_html;

exit;


sub displayError{
  my $errText = shift(@_);
  print "<h1><font color='red'>Error: $errText. Please email the system 
administrator at $admin_email</font></h1>";
  print "</body></html>";
  exit;
}


Hope it helps,
Yaron.


> Hi
> 
> Is there a mailer cgi script on the qube3 and if so where is it?
> 
> Also I can't get my cgi scripts to run.  I get resource not allowed
> errors back in the browser web page.
> 
> Any simple guide to getting the Qube to mail forms?
> 
> Finally, When the configuration says a user is allowed cgi what exactly
> does thatmean?  Does it mean that use can put cgi on their persoanl web
> site?  Do I need to create a cgi directory or what?
> 
> TIA
> 
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