[ale] write to stderr via javascript?

[Geoffrey]

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Matt Rideout wrote:
>>> What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to have the client
>>> trigger something that logs to stderr on the server side?
>> Unfortunately, yes.
> 
> Well, that's easy then, but not likely to be useful. You could use
> AJAX methodology to access an API that you could create that writes to
> /dev/stderr. But, stderr,  like stdin or stdout is process specific.
> Since your web server is likely to be running as a daemon, I don't
> know that you would ever know that the write happened.
> 
> Why not take a step back and instead of trying to get help
> implementing your chosen solution, let us help you with your existing
> problem. Can you tell us more about the problem you are trying to
> solve? Since this is now a server side issue, can you tell us what
> languages/frameworks you have at your disposal? (eg. PHP,
> Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, ASP/GunInMouth, etc.)

What I'm trying to do is log problems with javascript code somewhere so 
that I can see what the problem is.  Grant it, for testing purposes, I 
can see write to the error console, but that doesn't do me any good when 
a user runs into a problem.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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