weird CGI-bin problem
Paul Fenwick
pjf at perltraining.com.au
Fri Feb 27 19:20:20 CST 2004
G'day Jim,
jimd at paddy.wahroonga.com wrote:
[snip]
> however, when I change the href B.pl to A.pl (and make no other change)
> the result is that A.pl is downloaded rather than being executed.
> If I change href back to B.pl, normal behaviour resumes.
>
> I'm bewildered by this. Is there something special in CGI which causes
> downloading rather than execution? Help, please.
There's nothing special in CGI, and it's the job of the web-server to
determine if a given file should be executed, or simply returned in
response to an http request.
I would suggest that you check to see if the execute bit remains set on
the file after you make the change. Many web-server configurations will
refuse to execute a file that does not have the execute bit set. (This
is assuming you're using a UNIX flavoured system that has an execute bit
to set.)
Besides from that, changing a URL (presumably a string) in a given file
should not alter how the web server interprets that file.
Cheers,
Paul
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