From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-03-28T11:50:33+09:00
Subject: Re: not using offline mode in webrick

On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:37, Max Benjamin wrote:

> Hello list,
> I'm using webrick to serve up rhtml pages and can't seem to access cgi
> variables.  My very very simple server looks like this:
> ########################
> require 'webrick'
> include WEBrick
>
> def start_webrick(config = {})
>   config.update(:Port => 8080)
>    config.update(:MimeTypes => {'rhtml' => 'text/html'})
>   server = HTTPServer.new(config)
>   yield server if block_given?
>   ['INT', 'TERM'].each {|signal|
>     trap(signal) {server.shutdown}
>   }
>   ruby_dir = File.expand_path('html')
>   server.mount("html", HTTPServlet::ERBHandler, ruby_dir)
>   server.start
> end
>
> start_webrick(:DocumentRoot => 'html')
> #########################
>
> When I attempt to get cgi variables I receive the following message:
> (offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
>
> How do I run the program in "non-offline" mode?

Don't use CGI variables, use objects handed to the ERb page by  
WEBrick.  I think they're in meta_vars and query.