Re: Perl / CGI

[zimpel@t-online.de (Holger Zimmermann)]

> Charlie Deckert schrieb:
> 
> Greetings all! Happy Holidays..;-)
^^
Merry X-mas to you and all pi3-users too!

> 
> Ok I have been using Pi3 for about three months I have never done anything
> other than let the server run. LOL I am running Pi3Web on a Windows 98
> machine. So now I am wanting to run CGI stuff. I installed Perl for Win32 and
> all seems fine I can test the CGI scripts at the command line by typing (perl
> script.pl). When I try to run the script from the browser I am getting "ERROR
> reading response headers from cgi program" Start of command line is perl
> C:\pi3web\cgi-bin\my.script.pl"   With CGI the first line is usualy # !
> usr/local/bin/perl or what ever, my question is under the WIN 32 environment
> what should that line read? Is this the cause of the error I am getting? I
> will not be getting very complex I just want to run some simple scripts. One
> more thing when specifing the absolute and relative paths in some scripts,
> what should they be using pi3web.
^^
If the script runs from command line look at the first line printed by the
script on your screen. The line should be "Content-Type: text/html"
depending on the content type. Before the first content line starts an empty
line is needed. The corresponding line in your perl source code must be

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; 

You wondered about the first line in your perl scripts (#!/usr/bin/perl).
This is a typical feature of Unix shells. The first line of a script is the 
command line call of the program (with options) to execute the script itself.
This feature is similar to registering a file extension in Windows 95/98/NT.
If you use the script with a Windows version of perl this line is ignored.
But if you want to publish your perl stuff and it should work platform
independant (also on a Unix machine) do not delete this line.

I added a simple script to print out your CGI-environment. It is tested and
should run at once.

> 
> Regards
> Charlie Deckert
> Director, Information Systems
> Nor-Lea General Hospital
> Phone (505) 396-6611
> FAX (505) 396-3729

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