From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-06-21T02:16:18+09:00
Subject: Re: rescuing errors.. catch-all

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Daniel Bretoi wrote:

> would this seem to be a reasonable feature request to make? it would be very
> nice to be able to catch everything and be able to do with it what you like,
> especially with html.

this is easy to do for yourself:

~ > cat index.cgi  # wrap your cgi's in a baby shell script which dups 2 as 1
#!/bin/sh
cgi='foo.rb'
$cgi 2>&1

~ > cat foo.rb    # *any* output from program - even from ruby failing - sent to browser
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
<<| doesn't even parse |>>

~ > ./index.cgi > out; cat out # note that all errors went to stdout - e.g. displayed by browser
../foo.rb:2: parse error
<<| doesn't even parse |>>
  ^
../foo.rb:2: unterminated string meets end of file


when index.cgi is run all output, including errors, are displayed.


-a
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