[sf-perl] Learning CGI with Perl

Thu Mar 1 20:12:21 PST 2007

Try putting the full path to Perl in there. That may do the trick for you.

Neil Heller wrote:
> I decided that I wanted to learn some CGI to go along with my Perl in a
> Winderz environment.  I bought what I had hoped was a good book but...
> ActiveState Perl gagged on the first line of the program.  The error message
> was that if I used -T in the "#!" line then I needed to use it on the
> command line.  So I went to the command line and tried to start the prog
> manually with -T as a command line parameter.  From that I got the same
> message.
>
> Does anybody have an idea on how I can overcome this?
>
> Better yet, can anyone suggest a good book for learning CGI?
>
> FWIW, the name of the book is "CGI programming with Perl".  The source code
> follows.
>
>
> #! perl -wT
>
> print <<END_OF_HTML
> content-type: text/html
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
>     <TITLE>About this servr</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <H1>About this server</H1>
> <HR>
> <PRE>
>     Server name:        $ENV(SERVER_NAME)
>     Listening on Port:  $ENV(SERVER_PORT)
>     Server Software:    $ENV(SERVER_SOFTWARE)
>     Server Protocol:    $ENV(SERVER_PROTOCOL)
>     CGI Version:        $ENV(GATEWAY_INTERFACE)
> </PRE>
> </HR>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> END_OF_HTML
>
>
>
> Neil Heller
> nheller at silcon.com
>
>
>
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