APM: CGI::Application and -T

[David Bluestein II]

Sam-

Aaaah, I missed you were doing the development on winxp, I have never gotten CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser) on windows (well, I think I did once 3-4 years ago, but not recently). I'm not sure what the deal is, but it is a pain the butt. I usually move the code to Linux, run it, see the error, fix it, move back to windows. I'm sure though there is a way to make it work in Windows.

Let's google it and see.

David

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:16:29PM -0600, Sam Foster wrote:
> I'm having trouble running a perl cgi in taint mode.
> I have an implementation of CGI::Application that runs just fine, but 
> dies as soon as I put it into taint mode (by adding -T to my shebang)
> 
> E.g #!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe -wT (I'm developing with activeperl 5.8, 
> apache 1.3 on winXP... the production server will by a standard 
> linux/apache combo)
> 
> Without fail, I get the Internal Server Error message in my browser. I 
> also (this is windows XP Pro) get the microsoft error report prompt, 
> telling me the Perl Command Line Interpreter has encountered a problem 
> inviting me to send them the details of this problem.
> 
> I have
>   use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> .. in both my cgi, and the package that subclasses CGI::Application. I'm 
> also attempting to trap errors generated by the CGI::App with
> 
>   $res = eval{ $webapp->run()};
> 
> I can add die "some message" at seemingly any point in my cgi wrapper, 
> or the packages it uses and get the expected carp output in my browser.
> I also run the thing in the cmd shell by setting a couple environment 
> variables (DOCUMENT_ROOT, REQUEST_URI_ and calling
> perl mycgi.cgi
> .. and get the expected output back in the console.
> But when I do
> perl -T mycgi.cgi, again it dies, with no message to the console. Again, 
> the same error prompt.
> 
> In all likelyhood there's tainted data in there, I'm using the 
> REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_ROOT cgi environment variables for starters. 
> But I can't begin to address the problem as it stands, as I'm not able 
> to see the error.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> thanks
> Sam
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