SpiderBasic

Finally its working!

Peter's crystal ball had it right - however he suggested:

WriteCGIHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin:", "*", #PB_CGI_LastHeader)

Apparently, the colon should not be included (looks like the library code adds it). The browser tools showed a message complaining about multiple ...

cgiprinter does not have any extension at all - I renamed the exe file PB created.

Will check if the dev. tools reveal anything else ...

Thanks for your suggestions, but I am still stuck - guess I'll have to post the full details:

Everything below running on the same Windows 10 PC, Webserver is Abyss running on 8080

Spider client

EnableExplicit
Global GadgetID, WindowID

#Window = 1
#Button = 2

Procedure ShowWindow()
If ...

I point this request @ a cgi program created with PB (all of this under Windows 10, running Abyss as Web Server)

HTTPRequest(#PB_HTTP_Get, "http://127.0.0.1:8080/cgi-bin/cgiprinter", "", @HttpGetEvent())

and it fails with HTTP Error - the log entry for this attempt:

127.0.0.1 - - [25/May/2021:20 ...

Thanks for the quick reply! I was more worried about having to maintain compatible structures on 'both sides'...

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Paul!

I just read up on it and it seems to me that currently it cannot be used for database access as structured lists cannot be passed...

Is that a valid assessment or did I miss something?

Thanks!

Just running the Gadget.sb demo code from the Gadgets help

The code led me to believe that pressing the QUIT button would hide the window - but nothing at all happens...

Am I missing something? Bug?

Well, it appears to be the age old issue with CR/LF vs LF line termination.

Be aware, that if you use GIT (or some other version control?) that CVS systems sometimes wreak havoc on line termination as well if not configured properly.

It should be trivial to add support for both formats.
Fred's ...

I just installed SB beta 3 on a brand new machine and here I see almost the same results:

I did not modify the default port in Preferences, so it is set to 9080.

Project A has a port of 9080 in its URL

Project B has a port of 9081 in its URL

On the new machine, both run fine (on the old machine ...