Greetings list peoples, I was not sure whether or not this is an issue dealing exclusively with cgi i(thought certainly it must be a factor) so I have taken the liberty of sending this to both lists. Here is my (to my mind) very perplexing problem. I have a collection of CGIs that all use a module I have written. All are using strict and include the line print "Content-type : text/html \n\n"; The problem is that these files are intermittently returning server errors. At times they will execute fine and then the next time I try to execute I get a server error though the code remains unchanged. The error that is recorded in the log is always: [07/Jun/2001:12:33:13] failure (29703): for host 10.5.1.116 trying to GET /cgi/dispatcher/bugtrack.cgi, cgieng_scan_headers reports: the CGI program /oracle/web/docs-intranet/cgi/dispatcher/bugtrack.cgi did not produce a valid header (program terminated without a valid CGI header. Check for core dump or other abnormal termination) though the file names change. Also these files refuse to execute altogether if I use the -w flag. Interestingly, Issuing a perl -Twc (i am using taint as well) filename.cgi from the command line does not raise any warnings and tells me my syntax is OK. I would include some code, but there is an awful lot of it and I am entirely unsure where the problem is since perl -wc gives me no feed back other than the (usually) confidence building syntax OK. These scripts live on a Solaris 5.6 sun server running Netscape's web server version 3.6 Sorry to be so vague. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone might have. Thank You Peter Cline Inet Developer New York Times Digital
