Trouble with PG.pm Interface via browser

Started by harris justinover 26 years ago4 messagesgeneral
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#1harris justin
justin.harris@barclays.net

Hello

I am developing an interface to Postgres via a browser and am
having trouble getting and perl scripts called from a "POST"
method to connect to the database.
When run from the command prompt the script will connect OK.
When run from the browser nothing is returned and the request
times out after a period of time.
I am running postgres with SUSE 5.3. The httpd daemon runs
under user:wwwrun group:daemon. I have checked that under this
user ID I can connect to the database from the command line
but not from the browser. I have a browser interface using the C Library's running Ok under the same UID and group.

I took the following code from one of the posted messages to
check that I was not missing anything obvious. Is there something
obvious that I am missing here.

Can anyone help?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Pg;

# read (STDIN, $cmdline, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
$cmdline = <STDIN>;

@pairs = split (/&/, $cmdline);
foreach $pair (@pairs){
($name, $value) = split (/=/, $pair);
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack ("C", hex($1))/eg;
}
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

print <<EOM;
<HTML>
<BODY>
<BR>
EOM

$con=PQsetdb('','','','','soft');
$errmsg = PQerrorMessage ( $con );
if ($errmsg ne '')
{
print ($errmsg);
}

PQfinish($con);

print <<EOM;
</BODY>
</HTML>
EOM

#2Noname
mail@numanet.com
In reply to: harris justin (#1)
JDBC

Does anyone know of a source for some sample code for using jdbc or an
online tutorial?

#3Gilles Darold
darold@neptune.fr
In reply to: harris justin (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with PG.pm Interface via browser

harris justin wrote:

Hello

I am developing an interface to Postgres via a browser and am
having trouble getting and perl scripts called from a "POST"
method to connect to the database.
When run from the command prompt the script will connect OK.
When run from the browser nothing is returned and the request
times out after a period of time.
I am running postgres with SUSE 5.3. The httpd daemon runs
under user:wwwrun group:daemon. I have checked that under this
user ID I can connect to the database from the command line
but not from the browser. I have a browser interface using the C Library's running Ok under the same UID and group.

Are you running postmaster with the -i option in your startup script ?

Gilles Darold

#4Peter T Mount
peter@retep.org.uk
In reply to: Noname (#2)
Re: [GENERAL] JDBC

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999 mail@numanet.com wrote:

Does anyone know of a source for some sample code for using jdbc or an
online tutorial?

There's an entire directory of examples included with the source code.

Peter

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