I have XP Pro and had this problem but I changed my Server to Apache and it works fine now. (Before I had VQServer which was using the Sun JRE. which was interferring).
I dont know if that helps. Phill. "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 012f01c2b68d$53073360$64fea8c0@pkrausxp">news:012f01c2b68d$53073360$64fea8c0@pkrausxp... > I am running on a windows xp pro desktop with iis installed. I have > active state Perl installed and have been using it with out a problem. I > just started to play with cgi and I am having a lot of problems getting > it to work right. I have a static html form that's action calls the > following script. When it I hit submit all it does is display it as if > it was a text file. If I rename it to .pl then it tries to download it. > However if I have just call another test cgi script that displays some > html then it runs fine (also named .pl) with one exception it tells me > that it is to late to do -T. > > So basically I need to find out how to call this script from my form and > have it execute. Second I need to find out how to get .cgi scripts to > load instead of displaying or trying to download. Third I need to know > how to pass the -t to the compiler before my script executes. (I am > assuming this is a problem with Perl on windows not using the shebang. > Even though -w works odd.) > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use CGI; > > my $q=new CGI; > print $q->header ("text/plain"); > print "These are the parameters I received:\n\n"; > > my ($name, $value); > foreach $name ($q->param){ > print "$name:\n"; > foreach $value ($q->param($name)){ > print "\t$value\n"; > } > } > > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 216-267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
