SPUG: generating output with a cgi script

[Richard Anderson]

Wu, Yaoxi wrote:
> Following one of suggestions, I wrote a function to display the error
> message on the web browser (a simple "die ..." statement would cause the
> server to display something like "an internal error ..." which was not
very
> helpful),

Better than writing a custom error handler is simply adding:
   use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
to your CGI script and calling die in the normal manner.

Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com
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