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At 8:14 AM -0400 5/18/07, Lloyd Butler wrote:
>Bill,
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>Do you need to run WebStar, or are you willing to use Apache that is built in?
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>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.
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>For low volume, it "works", a bit of a kludge, but it does the job.
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>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.
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>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
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