Re: [cobalt-users] Want to watch the fun with the Code Red and it's new variant?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I have done this but it just shows me the raw data:
>
>If I run it from a telnet session, it works fine and just shows the data with all the html tags. I am running IE and Netscape on a Mac, if this makes a differrence.


Jason,

see my post *just* prior to this one - your problem is *almost* certainly that your VERY first line isn't the same as I posted:

#!/bin/sh

You can NOT have any blank lines BEFORE this in the script - ie, the very first character of the script should be the hash '#' of the comment line.

This tells the shell interpreter which binary to interpret the script with - eg, most perl scripts have the line #!/usr/bin/perl

If this *DOESN'T* work, then you should add THREE empty lines in the first echo command (the content-type echo) ABOVE the lines:

<H1>Getting Code Red Data...</H1>


and *AFTER* the line:

echo "content-type: text/html


so that whole section would read:

echo "content-type: text/html



<H1>Getting Code Red Data...</H1>
"

Some time the apache configuration/browser combination might not recognise the output as HTML, and it will get interpreted as the default (probalby raw text) - so this MIGHT explain why you got back the output from the script as opposed to HTML.

<GREG SHOOTS HIS OWN FOOT>
I posted a few posts back about "not being explicit is the mother of all coding screwups"?  THAT could be an example of how I didn't cover all my bases - I *KNOW* that I need 2-3 empty lines after the content-type header - I also left them out because I knew I could get away with it on my RAQ - yours might be more finicky. 
</GREG SHOOTS HIS OWN FOOT>

If after trying BOTH of the above, you are still having problems, drop me a line off group and I'll take a look at it for you.

regards

Greg

ps - I run a mac with ie and Netscrape too - the script works on my browsers and RAQ3...


>
>Jason
>
>>" rm coderedlock.txt exit 0
>>On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:29:14 -0700, Jim Scott mumbled something like:
>>>>When I used it with a CGI extension it did not work. I just removed
>>>>the CGI
>>>>extension from the name and called it again from the CGI directory
>>>>and it
>>>>worked.
>>
>>That's because it's not a CGI script, it's a shell script - running
>>it through the cgi wrapper was causing the error.
>>Sorry I didn't see this one earlier or would've suggested taking the
>>extention off, still replying though because I thought you might like
>>to know *why* taking the name off made it work.
>>--
>>CarrieB
>"Microsoft is no file:
>>t the answer, Microsoft is the question. NO is the
>>answer." --Unknown
>>
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