Well, I've managed to make some significant progress: I got past that hang (apparently modperl was having problems with the URL b/c some of the values were being passed empty... i.e., "stage=4&eqtype=All&cont=&restrictflags=12"... notice that cont has no value.
At any rate, I solved that problem by forcing the form that passes the information in to always have at least a bare minimum of data in each field... and it seems to be working. My next problem, which took four hours to track down, is that it turns out that mod_perl is choking on null values being retrieved from MySQL. I'm using DBI for the interface, and the actual fetch_row is performing exactly the way it should... but when it tries to do anything with my scalar once it has a null in it, it just chokes & sits there until it times out. Is this a known bug? Is there a known fix for it, other than ensuring I never have null values in my database? Thanks, Mike Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:53, Michael Forbes wrote: > My apologies in advance if this is something that's been described & > solved before... I can't seem to find the answer in archival searches > (maybe I'm just using the wrong terms). > > At any rate, I have a fairly large script that I wrote when operating > under Apache 1.3, perl 5.8.0, Redhat 7.3. I'm now running Apache 2.0, > perl 5.8.0, and Redhat 8.0... and it stopped working when I performed > the upgrade. > > > Anywhere, what's happening is that the code below this paragraph is just > hanging...(on the second line, I've inserted a few "print > 'debug<BR>\n';" lines in the real thing to make sure.) it does finally > time out, without producing any output. > > here's the relevant code: > > $pass = "/cgi-bin/plaintextresult.cgi?$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}"; > > print "<TD WIDTH='33%' ALIGN='CENTER' BGCOLOR='#222222'><A > HREF=\"$pass\" target='printerfriendly'>Plain text version</A></TD>\n"; > > > > Thanks in advance, and again, sorry if this is a FAQ, I just couldn't > find the answer anywhere. > > -Mike Forbes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >