Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:17:06 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Question regarding CGI
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, bub wrote:

> Today I decided to try to write a CGI application to use via
> Windows NT's Peer web service's web server. The code ( fairly
> simplistic, included below ). I get an error when I try to run
> it, claiming that the application didn't return the proper http
> headers, it then includes nothing as the error.
> I compiled the same code under Visual C++ on my work PC, and
> it runs fine... what gives ?

DJGPP programs look like ordinary DOS programs to Windows.  Therefore,
Windows runs a DJGPP program in a separate Virtual Machine, that is
different from the Virtual Machine where Windows programs run.
Redirecting standard streams (stdin, stdout, stderr) to a pipe from
another Virtual Machine requires some trickery, and many Windows Web
servers don't consider the case of a DOS CGI program, and don't employ
that trickery.  So the output from your program never gets to the
server.

Complain to the vendor of the server.  They should include a feature
that enables to redirect output from DOS CGI programs.  (Or maybe such
a feature is already described in their docs ;-).

> I couldn't find any references to CGI or problems related to it
> in the DJGPP FAQ.

It will be in the next release, I already have it in my working
draft.

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