At 8:14 AM -0400 5/18/07, Lloyd Butler wrote: >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. SmileServer makes a handy solution for that kind of job. We provide a special cgi to make the request into a plist and send it to a handler in Smile, and the install is quite straightforward, no muss, no fuss [1]. Information about that is at <http://www.satimage-software.com>. Emmanuel