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acgi dispatcher - 1.1

Run AppleScripts as acgi scripts under Apache

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Version 1.1:	Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version:	1.1
Release Date:	2002-07-01
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.1):	577
Downloads (all versions):	3,552
Price:	$15.00

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Product Description:

This program allows you to use traditional apple scripts or other programs that ran as acgi programs under OS9 on OSX with apache.

Dispatcher will happily send events to applications running in the classic environment as well as OSX native scripts and applets. It runs as a background process so you do not need to always display the window and dock icon if you dont wish to do so. It can also run when your Mac is logged out, but that brings with it a host of other potential issues since the program and all the scripts started from it will run as root. See the documentation for more information on this.

What's new in this version:

all events to scripts are now sent asynchronously giving you better performance under load and when running multiple scripts.

You can now also send any header, not just the 200 OK message. This means you can send redirects and error messages without generating the apache error that the previous version produced. Many OS9 scripts sent this OK message and they will now run un-altered on OSX.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or better

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try writing perl… - Version: 1.1, 4/1/2003 06:30PM PST

silvermane

scripts using the backtick operator. Works a treat. :)

Very nice...I've been… - Version: 1.0b2, 4/15/2002 11:11PM PST

madmacks

looking for a tool that will let me create an alert that will tell me when someone has loaded a particular web link on a couple of small sites I run. I think I can use this to generate an AppleScript alert when a link is clicked...Great job.

Very cool...the problem… - Version: 1.0b2, 2/18/2002 02:14PM PST

harleyb

with executing AppleScript files though PHP like I do is that the AppleScript can't return any values to the script, it has to write them to a file and the script has to read it. This is a much nicer solution and I'm looking forward to future releases. Any hope of possibly running the dispatcher as the www user, so it can run in the background but not be as powerful as root?