From: "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...>
Date: 2012-11-28T20:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI question

	Subject: CGI question
	Date: Wed 28 Nov 12 07:58:17PM +0900

Quoting Assaf Shomer (lists@ruby-forum.com):

> When i run this program i get nothing on the console output, and when i
> tried to run it in irb, it got stuck on the cgi = CGI.new("html3") line
> (by stuck I mean further ENTERs don't give me the standard
> irb(main):007:0> ) and gave the following message:
> ==============
> (offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
> ==============
> can anyone explain to me what's going on?

I have no experience with the cgi package at all, but the message is
clear: IRB is waiting for something on its standard input, waiting for
name=value pairs. If you want to find out exactly what these
name=value pairs are, I suggest you study the cgi package more. But I
can tell you that (at least in Linux) you tell the shell (and IRB)
that you are done with providing data from the standard input with
Ctrl-D. Indeed, if you press Ctrl-D at the above prompt, the object
creation call returns successfully.

Carlo

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