dear anders indeed, the example on your page works perfectly and mine now too! i did misunderstand something basic on how to use network.cgi. my wrong approach: 1. i copied the program from the web page (commented out the getinput:: line, which seems to be in error). 2. i run it with runghc and pasted the result into a web page; this page opens in the browser, but does not have actions. correct is to compile with ghc and copy the executable into the cgi-bin folder. then it works... i will put this hint somewhere in the web wiki. i think this limits what network.cgi can be used for: it will work only on systems, where the output from the ghc can execute. specifically, this means, i cannot move the executable to an android mobile phone and use it there (assuming that there is a web server, e.g. i-jetty, which understands cgi (does it?)). is this correct? i appreciated your quick reply - thank you for your help! andrew On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 18:31 -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Andrew U. Frank wrote:
which is clearly not producing the second part of the code, namely output a greeting.
That’s what it’s supposed to output. Have you considered typing in a name and submitting the form? It works fine for me: http://andersk.mit.edu/greet.cgi.
i try to use the Network.CGI package from darcs.
(Note also that the current version is maintained in Git, not Darcs, but that’s a minor detail. See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cgi .)
Anders