cgi = CGI.new causes the script to hang

[Gavri Savio Fernandez]

hi,
i don't know what i'm doing wrong, but the following code outputs 'before' and never outputs 'after'. it seems to be stuck in CGI.new.
does anyone know what might be the problem here?
----
require 'cgi'
$stdout.sync = true
puts 'before'
cgi = CGI.new
puts 'after'
----

thank you

Gavri Savio Fernandez
___________________________________________
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[ts]

G> i don't know what i'm doing wrong, but the following code outputs
G> 'before' and never outputs 'after'. it seems to be stuck in CGI.new.
G> does anyone know what might be the problem here?

It's trying to read name=value pairs on standard input.

Use Control-D (^D) on un*x or ^Z (???) on windows, to close the input.


Guy Decoux

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:54:37 +0900 From: Gavri Savio Fernandez
<[email protected]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: cgi = CGI.new
causes the script to hang

hi, i don't know what i'm doing wrong, but the following code outputs
'before' and never outputs 'after'. it seems to be stuck in CGI.new. does
anyone know what might be the problem here? ---- require 'cgi' $stdout.sync
= true puts 'before' cgi = CGI.new puts 'after' ----

thank you

Gavri Savio Fernandez
___________________________________________
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I
definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

guy already mentioned it's reading from standard in. one thing that's useful
for testing is:

~ > cat input
key=value
foo=bar

~ > foo.cgi < input


this should work on windows, *nix, whatever.



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