[Coco] Re: CoCo chat

[Charlie]

I'm getting this error when i try to send a message in the chat.
Error 0000_001A @ cgi.SendFile


Error 0000_001A @

Charlie


"Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote in
message news:6.1.1.1.0.20040809114913.01df7110 at pop.bayou.com...
> At 10:58 PM 8/8/2004, you wrote:
> >I keep checking in and hardly seeing anyone in Roger's chat rooms on
> >CoCo3.com.
> >Probably just my bad timing, but I know Roger is needing a lot of us to
hit it
> >(preferably at once) and do some beta chatting and bug reporting so he
can get
> >it working smoothly. Do we need to set up a schedule or something?
> >I was always an isolated CoConut until I found the online community in
the
> >late
> >90's. Now I feel like a starving man who finally arrived at a restraunt
> >just as
> >they are closing.
>
> Consider the restaurant a Waffle House.  :)
>
> As for the chat rooms, it's becoming very hard to pursuade anybody, even
> close friends, to waste their time clicking on the link and helping test
> the code.  It's more difficult to find two or more people to do this at
the
> same time.  So yes, it's hard to find errors that are not happening when I
> go into the chat rooms but are happening with some other users.  However,
I
> know that when it's up and running, a few people out of the hundreds and
> hundreds of CoCo users out there will enjoy chatting live with other CoCo
> users.
>
> Two bizarre errors are holding me up now... when I attempt to read a
simple
> cookie from the visitors web browser (that he chooses to set in a previous
> session - his nickname) the program crashes at the very instruction that
> reads the cookie environment variable.  This only happens with some
> visitors.  The author of HLA is swamped right now and has yet to
> investigate the env.get instruction that he just added over a month
> ago.  It works for every other environment variable read from Linux.  So I
> am trapping the error for now which lets the program keep running but no
> nickname can be retrieved back.  The other error is that when I attempt to
> open an HTML file (that is not being used by anybody else, and that does
> exist), some web browsers are causing the script to generate a Linux
> exception $1A.  I'm working on cornering this bug as well.  If it's in the
> fileio.open() function of HLA, my only guess right now is that the web
> server can only have so many files open at a time and that I need to put
in
> try.x.times loops when attempting to open files from my script.  Still...
> the errors never happen with me, so you can see why all of this is a
little
> baffling.
>
> Why not use Perl?  I'm a die-hard HLA user.  It's capable of almost
> anything.  I am also the first HLA user to have written a cgi-bin
> program.  I did this immediately after Randall added the env.get
> instruction which reads environment variables from Windows or Linux using
> the same instruction.  A link redirector and flat-file database program
are
> being used on coco3.com now and have yet to fail as far as I know.  So
with
> the other programs not failing when they open files, update them, and
close
> them, you can see why it's a mystery why this is happening with the chat
code.
>
>
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