It should work, make sure your connection parameters are OK. If not, fix them.
Another thing to do, is run a trace... DBI->trace(5, "trace.log"); And you can increase the levels up to 10, for more info. See what's going on at connect. Ilya > -----Original Message----- > From: Karpagam, Madhana (M.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 4:02 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: Broski, Jeffrey (J.M.) > Subject: Oracle 9i, CGI error. > > > We moved to Oracle 9i recently. The perl scripts are giving > out the following error. it is working fine when connecting > to Oracle 7.3. An error has occurred that prevents this. The > most likely reason is : > [08/Aug/2003:15:57:18] failure (15444): for host 19.49.159.74 > trying to GET /cgi-bin/PPMHome.cgi, cgieng_scan_headers > reports: the CGI program > /ford/thishost/u/eppm/www.80/cgi-bin/PPMHome.cgi did not > produce a valid header (name without value: got line "can't > call method "prepare" without a package or object reference > at /ford/thishost/u/eppm/www.80/cgi-bin/ppmhome.cgi line 357.") > Please contact the application owner to correct this problem. > Please advise what needs to be done for the DB connection to > work with Oracle 9i. What is a compatible version on DB to > work with 9i. Thanks, Madhana Karpagam. > >