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Week 3 This week began on a high! I loaded all of the necessary components to the Mechanical Turk Sandbox - a simulated environment where you can test your HITs before going public. Everything ran smoothly, until it was time to submit the results - CRASH! After researching what went wrong, I realized that our plan to use static web pages would not work. Amazon requires all external web pages to pass a unique assignment ID to their server when the user submits answers, so the pages must be dynamic. I quickly got to work learning CGI (Common Gateway Interface). By the end of the week, I had my "Hello World" script working that prints parameters passed in the url! [PREVIOUS] [NEXT] |