World: r3wp

although again, I could not get the ole object to work just by registering 
it with regsrvr

No time to figure this all out .. just ask users to install Imagemagick 
:)

well, it's a no go for me. everything has to be bundled into a single 
lightweight package. I think it's a little absurd having to blow 
up the app by a factor of 2-5 in size, just to get pretty thumbnail 
generation for it. I hope a future version of DRAW will allow better 
downscaling.

my app is less than 1 mb, and the installer is 40mb :)

Does anyone have any ideas about how to approach a web-based gui 
that allows users to upload multiple files at one time without having 
a series of  "inputs?" I'd like to have users do a ctrl select when 
they are browsing for multiple files to send. Thanks.

I'm doing multiple file uploads using flash8

Oldes, I knew you would say that! : )

Is that in your example code?

there is only one file upload in the examples - http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/index.php?example=142

i think, it's not possible in pure html

No, it isn't which is kind of strange. I would use the Rebol plugin 
but I haven't had too much success and I don't want to create more 
work supporting users.

Thanks.

if you want to upload more files using flash, it's very simillar 
to the example above, just you have to use FileReferenceList! instead 
of FileReference!

OK, I'm going to try it. Does the flash also handle the file saving 
portion?

here is ActionScript doc example: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002226.html

what is file saving portion?

I mean, does it simply send it to a cgi program or does it save the 
files sent as well?

it just sends data to cgi (one by one = not all at once)

Oh, OK. I get it. Thanks!

so on the cgi side you get just one file as from one input file field

maybe I can make some example in the future

OK, that should be good.

you can probably handle multiple files using javascript too. (qtask 
does it, but i never used it so i don't know how it's done.)

Hmmm, I'll look into that as well. Thanks.

I checked it out and it basically has a button to add more inputs 
to the page. There was a snippet available on the web that does this. 
That definitely is a possiblity.

Yes, more input-file fields is possible as well, just you may reach 
the upload size limit more easily. Most servers I used has maximum 
2MB per post, so if you want to upload 5 images with 1MB, you will 
not be able to post them at once.

Yes, that may be a concern as well. I'm running on a virtual server 
so I could change those parameters. Maybe I should investigate some 
type of Rebol client app. instead. Basically, what I'm after is a 
what for my students to send in their homework files that is better 
and smarter than this dropbox solution that they have now. It doesn't 
give them feedback of a successful upload and I end up with files 
upon files of slightly uncategorized uploads.

I'm using FormMail.pl to handle some simple contact details collection, 
but seems it is not highly regarded in the Perl community due to 
it's vulnerability to SPAM and bots. nms seems to offer a more secure 
version, http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/faq_nms.html, but I haven't 
done anything with Perl for years now. Anyone have a suggestion for 
a good FormMail.pl replacement, are are rumors of it's death greatly 
exaggerated?

if you have PHP on the server...you can try SwiftMailer.
http://www.swiftmailer.org/

afaik, the latest formmail.pl is "secure enough" (esp. if you configure 
it properly). it's not the best system out there, and being very 
popular it is also a popular target, but if you don't have time to 
replace it but can keep it up to date you should be fine.

How the MS IIS is putting  those cgi data into system/ports/input?

I had problem with MS IIS - hangs on read-io - results to cgi timeout!

Try to use Feedback - http://www.rebol.com/feedback.html- I don't 
think there is many people using Rebol with IIS

has anyone made Carls blog script work with webserv.r? I get very 
odd behavior here.

system/options/cgi/remote-addr is not registered, apparently, so 
I can't edit pages.

Does anyone have a nice "easy to use" sessions code like php so I 
can "secure" pages like the rebol blogger editing?

james, let me know if you come up with something. I was doing some 
session stuff for blogger.r, but stopped due to lack of time.

james, I am sure this has been discussed before and pekr and/or sunanada 
gave such an example... try doing a search or reading about it here 
in earlier conversations...

James: try this:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=acgiss.r

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/documentation.r?script=acgiss.r

Thank you all. I will try it.

My ISP just changed OS for FreeBSD 6.2 - and all my rebol cgi scripts 
are not working! What should I ask them to?

Did you install Rebol yourself?

Yes - before I jast had in root directory a catalog with permissions 
and all worked.

For 2 years :)

This (in readme) makes me think: "Requires specific library versions 
on Linux/Unix systems"

Rebol.org had a similar problem when the ISP moved from Linux to 
BSD - they fixed it by running a linux compatibiity utility. Sunanda 
knows the details.

..well more detail than I do.

As I remember there was some words (2 years ago) about "argh! we 
must downgrade libraries just for You" (or similar - it was FreeBSD 
too)

Thanks for help - I'll try to ask Sunanda

There is a FreeBSD version of Rebol Core but I'm not sure which version 
of FreeBSD..

Given the small download and simple installation, it may be worth 
a try.