Re: Problems running cgi script
 

in order to have perl dump valid html it must first print (to the
browser) a header followed by 2 newlines
print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";


vanessa wrote:

>I am trying to run a cgi script from an shtml page:
>
><!--#exec cgi="/SMF/cgi-bin/signoff-emc.cgi" -->
>
>However on viewing the html page the output from the cgi script is not
>shown and the following error log is generated:
>
>[11/Aug/2003:10:46:03] failure (19406): for host
>njecomprod34.lehman.com trying to GET /SMF/cgi-bin/signoff-emc.cgi,
>cgieng_scan_headers reports: the CGI program
>/home/sme/SMF/prod/cgi-bin/signoff-emc.cgi did not produce a valid
>header (name without value: got line "use of uninitialized value in
>join or string at (eval 6) line 16.")
>
>I was wondering whether the perl version beng referenced was
>incorrect:
>
>#!/opt/perl-5.6.1/bin/perl -w
>
>use strict;
>use XML::Simple;
>use CGI;
>
>But on changing it to:
>
>#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w
>
>I still get an error:
>
>[11/Aug/2003:11:10:44] failure (19406): for host
>njecomprod34.lehman.com trying to GET /SMF/cgi-bin/signoff-emc.cgi,
>cgieng_scan_headers reports: the CGI program
>/home/sme/SMF/prod/cgi-bin/signoff-emc.cgi did not produce a valid
>header (name without value: got line "begin failed--compilation
>aborted at /home/sme/smf/prod/cgi-bin/signoff-emc.cgi line 20.")
>
>There shouldn't be any problems with the actual code since it is being
>used in another area - I am more inclined to think that there is a
>problem with the environment I am working in, i.e incorrect server
>config (have already had to get SSI enabled on the unix box I am
>using).
>
>Any ideas would be much appreciated,
>
>Vanessa
>
>

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Regards,
Dov Levenglick