Bill,

Do you need to run WebStar, or are you willing to use Apache that is 
built in?

I have some Applescripts that I use to build our business cards in 
Quark that I drive from a web page. I have Perl handle the cgi call and 
reformat the database query result to text and store it as a file, and 
then use a system call to execute the Applescript.

For low volume, it "works", a bit of a kludge, but it does the job.

I changed the group the www user runs under so that it can access the 
gui otherwise it will not do anything because of access priviledges.

OS X server is supposed to have the apache plugin to allow it to 
execute Applescripts directly, but I am not sure what it does about 
scripts that access apps as the apps need access to the gui.

Lloyd

> From: Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: May 17, 2007 12:23:36 PM EST
> Subject: WebSTAR AppleEventExample
>
>
> In the WebSTAR cgi-bin, as installed, we find AppleEventExample.acgi. 
> Pointing a form at it does nothing.  Trying to open it in Script 
> Editor does nothing (perhaps saved as run-only, a lovely way to supply 
> an example).
>
> Anybody know what this thing is?
>
> What I really want is the syntax for an Applescript CGI with WebSTAR 5 
> on OS X.  Does it still use "on handle CGI request searching for path 
> args..." etc.? or is there some new syntax for stdin or some such?
>
> When I use one of my old OS 9 CGIs, it runs and appears in the 
> toolbar, but doesn't do anything. Googling the topic produces tons of 
> information on using Applescript CGIs with Machttp.  Plus a lot of 
> stuff in German and Japanese.
> -- 
>