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Very Frustrating

Hi everyone, the following code works from my linux shell as root or
the 'nobody' accounts:
-----------------------------

#!/usr/bin/perl
#use strict;
#use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
#use URI::URL;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<HTML;
<html>
<head>
<title>TEST</title>
</head>
<body>
HTML

my $url_variable = $input{'URL'};

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->timeout(120);
my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'http://www.yahoo.com');
my $response = $ua->request($request);
my $content = $response->content();
print "$content";
print <<HTML;
</body>
</html>
</head>
HTML
---------------------------------

BUT when I hit that same .pl file with my browser I get the following
error:

500 Can't connect to www.yahoo.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.yahoo.com')

Can someone help me please? I'm doing something idiotic, I know, and
anything you could do to help would be appreciated.

-G

Re: Very Frustrating

On 29 July, 18:48, Tad J McClellan <ta...@seesig.invalid> wrote:
> schnibitz <schnib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > #use strict;
>
> You lose all of the benfits of that pragma when you comment
> it out like that.
>
> --
> Tad McClellan
> email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.noitatibaher\100cmdat/"

Thank you, I've tried both ways BTW, and it doesn't give me any more
helpful messages. I checked DNS on my server. I can ping the
address, and it resolves to an IP just fine. I've checked the perl
resolver by issuing a special perl command, and it too resolves just
fine. I can wget the site without issue, my /etc/hosts file has two
measly entries, so I don't think that a corrupt hosts file has
anything to do with it. Why would it work command-line, but not when
invoked through the browser?

Re: Very Frustrating

On 29 July, 19:59, Tony Curtis <tony_curti...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thank you, I've tried both ways BTW, and it doesn't give me any more
> > helpful messages. *I checked DNS on my server. *I can ping the
> > address, and it resolves to an IP just fine. *I've checked the perl
> > resolver by issuing a special perl command, and it too resolves just
> > fine. *I can wget the site without issue, my /etc/hosts file has two
> > measly entries, so I don't think that a corrupt hosts file has
> > anything to do with it. *Why would it work command-line, but not when
> > invoked through the browser?
>
> maybe there's something restricted about the web server?
>
> if it works from the command-line then there's nothing
> obviously wrong with the perl logic: maybe there's
> something to do with the web server config that breaks
> things?
>
> hth
> t

Hi there, great suggestion, and I'll be doing that from now on. I
added all of that in, and I'm still not getting any helpful errors. I
don't understand why it works in the shell, but not when invoked from
a browser. I know that the browser hits that file from a different
user (nobody I think) and I've tried invoking it from the "nobody"
acct BTW.

Here is the updated code with your suggested additions, and minor
clarifications:

_______________________________________
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
#use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
#use URI::URL;

my $content = 0;
my $error = 0;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<HTML;
<html>
<head>
<title>TEST</title>
</head>
<body>
HTML
&getpage;
print "$content";
print "$error";
print <<HTML;
</body>
</html>
</head>
HTML

sub getpage {
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->timeout(120);
my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'http://www.yahoo.com');
my $response = $ua->request($request);
if ($response->is_success) {
$content = $response->content;
}
else {
$error = $response->status_line, "\n";
}
}

_____________________________________
Any other things I can try?

Re: Very Frustrating

On 29 July, 21:13, Tad J McClellan <ta...@seesig.invalid> wrote:
> schnibitz <schnib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I
> > don't understand why it works in the shell, but not when invoked from
> > a browser. *I know that the browser hits that file from a different
> > user (nobody I think) and I've tried invoking it from the "nobody"
> > acct BTW.
>
> If you "think" wrong, then the fact that it runs as nobody is irrelevant.
>
> What is relevant is if it runs from the command line as the same use
> that your CGI program runs as.
>
> So the first step is to determine what user your CGI programs run as.
>
> * * #!/usr/bin/perl
> * * print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
> * * system 'whoami';
>
> > print "$content";
>
> * * perldoc -q vars
>
> --
> Tad McClellan
> email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.noitatibaher\100cmdat/"

Hi Tad, fair enough, I removed the quotes. I normally don't use them,
but I started just trying anything (yeah I'm that desperate). Anyway,
I added the "system 'whoami';" command, and it shows "apache" instead
of "nobody". So I su to "apache" and ran the script again.
Flawless. Not a single error or anything thrown that I can see.
Still getting "bad hostname" error when accessed from the browser.

Re: Very Frustrating

On 29 July, 22:01, schnibitz <schnib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 July, 21:13, Tad J McClellan <ta...@seesig.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>
> > schnibitz <schnib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I
> > > don't understand why it works in the shell, but not when invoked from
> > > a browser. *I know that the browser hits that file from a different
> > > user (nobody I think) and I've tried invoking it from the "nobody"
> > > acct BTW.
>
> > If you "think" wrong, then the fact that it runs as nobody is irrelevant.
>
> > What is relevant is if it runs from the command line as the same use
> > that your CGI program runs as.
>
> > So the first step is to determine what user your CGI programs run as.
>
> > * * #!/usr/bin/perl
> > * * print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
> > * * system 'whoami';
>
> > > print "$content";
>
> > * * perldoc -q vars
>
> > --
> > Tad McClellan
> > email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.noitatibaher\100cmdat/"
>
> Hi Tad, fair enough, I removed the quotes. *I normally don't use them,
> but I started just trying anything (yeah I'm that desperate). *Anyway,
> I added the "system 'whoami';" command, and it shows "apache" instead
> of "nobody". *So I su to "apache" and ran the script again.
> Flawless. *Not a single error or anything thrown that I can see.
> Still getting "bad hostname" error when accessed from the browser.

Okay, one other quick thing . . . So when I add the IP for www.yahoo.com
into the /etc/hosts file, here's what I get when I run it from my
browser now:

0500 Can't connect to www.yahoo.com:80 (Permission denied)

Different message. Anyone make anything of that?

Re: Very Frustrating

On 29 July, 22:01, schnibitz <schnib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 July, 21:13, Tad J McClellan <ta...@seesig.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>
> > schnibitz <schnib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I
> > > don't understand why it works in the shell, but not when invoked from
> > > a browser. *I know that the browser hits that file from a different
> > > user (nobody I think) and I've tried invoking it from the "nobody"
> > > acct BTW.
>
> > If you "think" wrong, then the fact that it runs as nobody is irrelevant.
>
> > What is relevant is if it runs from the command line as the same use
> > that your CGI program runs as.
>
> > So the first step is to determine what user your CGI programs run as.
>
> > * * #!/usr/bin/perl
> > * * print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
> > * * system 'whoami';
>
> > > print "$content";
>
> > * * perldoc -q vars
>
> > --
> > Tad McClellan
> > email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.noitatibaher\100cmdat/"
>
> Hi Tad, fair enough, I removed the quotes. *I normally don't use them,
> but I started just trying anything (yeah I'm that desperate). *Anyway,
> I added the "system 'whoami';" command, and it shows "apache" instead
> of "nobody". *So I su to "apache" and ran the script again.
> Flawless. *Not a single error or anything thrown that I can see.
> Still getting "bad hostname" error when accessed from the browser.

Okay, last post I swear. That last error got me to realize that
selinux was hurting me. It would not allow my script to open up a
port. Thank you to everyone for bearing with me, and hopefully this
will help some poor soul out there.