[Melbourne-pm] Wierd CGI Error - different displays for different executers
Benji Wakely
benji at arsimagica.net
Wed Mar 22 17:08:03 PST 2006
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:30:52 +1100,
"Sam Brent" <sambrent at gmail.com> wrote:
>Has anyone ever had a CGI script that creates the right output when
>run in a terminal but the incorrect ouput when run in a browser?
Quite a few times...
:)
Simple things to check:
For me, it was nearly always down to the perl script relying on
environment variables that weren't available when it was invoked
as a cgi.
It's also probable that it's an entirely different user that's
running the script.
("you" from the command line, "apache" from the web for example.)
>but prints that actually use perl to get their parameters like reading
>from a file then printing the output go nowhere.
Are your file/pathnames fully qualified?
$infile = "$HOME/file.dat";
might be better off replaced by
$infile = "/home/me/file.dat";
--Benji
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