[JaxPM] Error message

[J Proctor]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er J Proctor <jproctor at marlboro.edu> wrote -


> It is highly likely that the HTTP Referrer is broken.

>> if (!$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}) {

While it is not always the best way to debug stuff, I am a firm advocate
of peppering with print statements to see if variables hold what you think
they should.  In the print block, try printing the contents of
$ENV{HTTP_REFERER} as part of the error message.  I recommend enclosing in
some "neutral" character like ()s so you can "see" null values.

Also, is it specific browser(s) that break the script?  It may be that a
browser isn't reporting things properly.  Don't know how you get around
that; most scripts I see that require form submission do something like
make sure there's a value for "submit".


j


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