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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] mysterious cgi problem

Not_found must be coming from some initialization procedure in module Y,
so try to trap it from there.


On 06/19/2014 11:41 PM, Eliot Handelman wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> We have a demo coming up on Monday of an ocaml based music analysis and
> generation system with a
> web component for music notation that, irritatingly, has stopped
> working. The interface is a CGI
> with an ocaml 4.01 executable. After several harrowing days I narrowed
> the problem down to the
> following situation:
> 
> X, a basic system, runs fine in firefox/chrome/various linuxen
> 
> X + module Y  generates "Not_found" exceptions in the CGI merely by
> linking Y. Y is
> otherwise not invoked.  Moreover, I'm unable to trap the exception in
> the CGI itself
> (ie, a try/with around the main function is somehow bypassed as the
> apache error long reports).  So
> it would seem the that the code fails before the main function is executed.
> 
> We were using ocamlnet, but I rolled my own cgi parser and reproduced
> the problem.
> 
> Any suggestions? My next step would be to start rolling back the system,
> which is
> not pleasant.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -- eliot
>