Re: Questions about CGI
> On Jun 6, 2018, at 2:16 PM, Ahmad Bilal wrote: > > Ok, I went over to previously answered questions under the cgi tag here on > stackoverflow. This message was posted to the Perl Beginners list, so you are not at Stackoverflow any more. > > This seems to be the most voted one: What is Common Gateway Interface (CGI)? > > But it still doesn't clear a few things, which I'm asking here. > > Since RFC3875 is only a informational doc, and there is no finalized standard. > > • Who implements CGI protocol? Who defines its "standard behavior" on > servers such as Apache. The CGI protocol is implemented by web servers and web browsers. It is a way for browsers to query a server and get dynamic information, rather than a static web page. The CGI request is part of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It allows parameters to be sent by the browser to the server, which then uses the values of these parameters to generate a dynamic web page that it sends back to the browser. > > • How does C files work with CGI in modern environment. Please > elaborate using a "Hello World!" as a response to a form submission. You can write a CGI program in just about any language. Since this is a Perl list, maybe you should be asking about CGI programming in Perl. I have written CGI programs in Perl, but now use PHP (for compatibility with existing CGI scripts). Perl has modules to assist in CGI program development. The oldest of these is the CGI.pm module, but it has now fallen out of favor, and other modules are now recommended. I haven’t used any (or done any CGI programming in Perl for a long time), so I can’t recommend any from personal experience. Check out these pages: <https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI> <https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::Kensho#Task::Kensho::WebDev:-Web-Development> > > > > -- > Ahmad Bilal > Jim Gibson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Questions about CGI
Ok, I went over to previously answered questions under the cgi tag here on stackoverflow. This seems to be the most voted one: What is Common Gateway Interface (CGI)? <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2089271/what-is-common-gateway-interface-cgi> But it still doesn't clear a few things, which I'm asking here. Since RFC3875 is only a informational doc, and there is no finalized standard. 1. Who implements CGI protocol? Who defines its "standard behavior" on servers such as Apache. 2. How does C files work with CGI in modern environment. Please elaborate using a "Hello World!" as a response to a form submission. -- *Ahmad Bilal*
Re: carp and cgi warnings
Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> writes: > On 02/14/2016 01:09 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> On 02/13/2016 02:07 PM, lee wrote: >>> Brock Wilcox <awwa...@thelackthereof.org> writes: >>> >>>> Greetings! >>>> >>>> Could you give an example of these warnings, and even better some >>>> minimal >>>> code that generates them? >>> Something like this gives you warnings in apaches error.log: >>> >>> >>> #!/usr/bin/perl >>> # >>> use strict; >>> use warnings; >>> use autodie; >>> >>> use CGI;# qw(:standard); >>> [...] >>> >>> >>> The warning says that CGI will be removed from perl and that I should >>> install it from cpan. I don't want to install things from cpan but the >>> package management of the distribution to take care of things because I >>> don't want to do the package management by myself. >>> >>> >>> For smartmatch: >>> >>> >>> perl -e 'print "foo" ~~ "bar";' >>> Smartmatch is experimental at -e line 1. >>> >>> >>> You get that for every line you're using smartmatch in. >>> >>> Smartmatch works quite well; it's a really cool feature. I already know >>> that it's experimental. I don't need to be reminded of this 10 times >>> per minute in the log file while I'm trying to find a relevant message >>> amongst thousands of these useless warnings. >> >> read the docs on warnings (perldoc warnings). it is easy to disable >> any warning you want. note that this will be lexical so you need to >> turn them off in the right location. >> >> uri >> >>> >> > and even more detail can be read with perldoc perllexwarn. all about > enabling and disabling lexical warnings. > > uri Thanks, I'll look into it when I find the time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
carp and cgi warnings
Hi, is there a way to disable the annoying warnings about carp and cgi which cgi programs write to the web-server's log file in a general way rather than per program? Same goes for smartmatch warnings. The log file is overloaded with these useless messages, which makes it difficult to find actual errors/warnings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: carp and cgi warnings
Greetings! Could you give an example of these warnings, and even better some minimal code that generates them? Thanks, --Brock On Feb 13, 2016 8:19 AM, "lee" <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to disable the annoying warnings about carp and cgi which > cgi programs write to the web-server's log file in a general way rather > than per program? Same goes for smartmatch warnings. > > The log file is overloaded with these useless messages, which makes it > difficult to find actual errors/warnings. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
Re: carp and cgi warnings
On 02/13/2016 07:33 AM, lee wrote: Hi, is there a way to disable the annoying warnings about carp and cgi which cgi programs write to the web-server's log file in a general way rather than per program? Same goes for smartmatch warnings. The log file is overloaded with these useless messages, which makes it difficult to find actual errors/warnings. I am not 100% sure what you want to accomplish, but this *might* be helpful, or at least be a good place to start looking if you are using Apache 2: https://www.howtoforge.com/setenvif_apache2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: carp and cgi warnings
Brock Wilcox <awwa...@thelackthereof.org> writes: > Greetings! > > Could you give an example of these warnings, and even better some minimal > code that generates them? Something like this gives you warnings in apaches error.log: #!/usr/bin/perl # use strict; use warnings; use autodie; use CGI;# qw(:standard); [...] The warning says that CGI will be removed from perl and that I should install it from cpan. I don't want to install things from cpan but the package management of the distribution to take care of things because I don't want to do the package management by myself. For smartmatch: perl -e 'print "foo" ~~ "bar";' Smartmatch is experimental at -e line 1. You get that for every line you're using smartmatch in. Smartmatch works quite well; it's a really cool feature. I already know that it's experimental. I don't need to be reminded of this 10 times per minute in the log file while I'm trying to find a relevant message amongst thousands of these useless warnings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: carp and cgi warnings
Nathan Hilterbrand <noset...@cotse.net> writes: > On 02/13/2016 07:33 AM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to disable the annoying warnings about carp and cgi which >> cgi programs write to the web-server's log file in a general way rather >> than per program? Same goes for smartmatch warnings. >> >> The log file is overloaded with these useless messages, which makes it >> difficult to find actual errors/warnings. >> > > I am not 100% sure what you want to accomplish, but this *might* be > helpful, or at least be a good place to start looking if you are using > Apache 2: I'm trying to turn off the useless warnings in apaches' error.log from cgi programs written in perl which keep telling me that cgi will be removed and that smartmatch is experimental. You get a really huge log file with totally useless warnings which only hinder debugging. I wonder who had the idea to print these, it's ridiculous. > https://www.howtoforge.com/setenvif_apache2 I'm not sure if that will help. Apparently this isn't for suppressing error messages from cgi programs? I know you can put something into the perl program to suppress these messages. Of course, I don't want to go through all of them for this. I want to disable these warnings at one place, for all the programs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: carp and cgi warnings
On 02/14/2016 01:09 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: On 02/13/2016 02:07 PM, lee wrote: Brock Wilcox <awwa...@thelackthereof.org> writes: Greetings! Could you give an example of these warnings, and even better some minimal code that generates them? Something like this gives you warnings in apaches error.log: #!/usr/bin/perl # use strict; use warnings; use autodie; use CGI;# qw(:standard); [...] The warning says that CGI will be removed from perl and that I should install it from cpan. I don't want to install things from cpan but the package management of the distribution to take care of things because I don't want to do the package management by myself. For smartmatch: perl -e 'print "foo" ~~ "bar";' Smartmatch is experimental at -e line 1. You get that for every line you're using smartmatch in. Smartmatch works quite well; it's a really cool feature. I already know that it's experimental. I don't need to be reminded of this 10 times per minute in the log file while I'm trying to find a relevant message amongst thousands of these useless warnings. read the docs on warnings (perldoc warnings). it is easy to disable any warning you want. note that this will be lexical so you need to turn them off in the right location. uri and even more detail can be read with perldoc perllexwarn. all about enabling and disabling lexical warnings. uri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: carp and cgi warnings
On 02/13/2016 02:07 PM, lee wrote: Brock Wilcox <awwa...@thelackthereof.org> writes: Greetings! Could you give an example of these warnings, and even better some minimal code that generates them? Something like this gives you warnings in apaches error.log: #!/usr/bin/perl # use strict; use warnings; use autodie; use CGI;# qw(:standard); [...] The warning says that CGI will be removed from perl and that I should install it from cpan. I don't want to install things from cpan but the package management of the distribution to take care of things because I don't want to do the package management by myself. For smartmatch: perl -e 'print "foo" ~~ "bar";' Smartmatch is experimental at -e line 1. You get that for every line you're using smartmatch in. Smartmatch works quite well; it's a really cool feature. I already know that it's experimental. I don't need to be reminded of this 10 times per minute in the log file while I'm trying to find a relevant message amongst thousands of these useless warnings. read the docs on warnings (perldoc warnings). it is easy to disable any warning you want. note that this will be lexical so you need to turn them off in the right location. uri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: [perl #127353] CGI documentation, start_html missing
Hi Kent,
Thanks for your time, seems everyone works late (or early) around
here.
> This is verging into "user support", which is typically better targeted at
> the "beginners@perl.org"[1] mailing list or any of the Web::Simple support
> avenues[2], not RT/P5P, however, I don't like to leave something hanging.
I don't know if just Cc'ing beginners@perl.org will work? (I'm not
subscribed)
> On Fri Jan 22 22:58:28 2016, frede...@ofb.net wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > I hope that a compatible version of CGI continues to be available from
> > the standard repositories,
>
> As far as I'm aware, CGI.pm will continue to be maintained and its bugs fixed
> where possible, and will be available from CPAN mirrors. ( And even in the
> event it vanished from CPAN, there's always BackPAN :) )
Got it, thank you.
> > because after reading your explanation, and
> > the synopsis of CGI::HTML::Functions, I still don't understand what
> > the problem with the existing interface is, or how I'm supposed to get
> > start_html using HTML::Tiny...
>
> There's no need to use start_html with HTML::Tiny.
>
> my $content = start_html( child_nodes() );
>
> vs
>
> my $g = HTML::Tiny->new();
> my $html = $g->html(
>$g->...
> );
>
> Are basically the difference you're looking for.
>
> The difference that matters is instead of *printing* it to STDOUT with
> Web::Simple, you pass the HTML string inside the last array ( this is how the
> PSGI protocol works )
>
> return [ CODE, [ HEADING => VALUE ], [ $html ] ];
That sounds like a big difference. I find it very intuitive to write
code that goes
print start_table(...)
for(...) {
print tr(td(...))
}
print end_table(...)
I don't see a way to do this with HTML::Tiny. Furthermore, all the
documentation for functions like start_table and start_html has been
not only removed from CGI but also fails to appear in
CGI::HTML::Functions. This just seems like a big regression to me,
documentation-wise.
> > or what is "template driven page
> > generation"... and I just noticed that Web::Simple pulled in a ton of
> > dependencies! Oh, the irony. :)
>
> Its still simple to *use*, and it is optimised for low-overhead startup time
> and fat-packability irrc :)
>
> > Wait, templates are just what I feared. ... sigh...
>
> Templates aren't all that bad. Sometimes its just nicer to write pure HTML
> than fuss with writing HTML with hundreds of perl function calls =)
I totally agree with that statement, and I could see myself using
Web::Simple/PSGI for certain projects.
But I would also assert that sometimes it's nicer to write Perl
function calls, without having to worry about HTML entities and
matching all those start and end tags with the little angle brackets
around each one... so why should that choice be deprecated, even
"softly"?
> But I'll leave it up to you if you want to send any follow up questions to
> other channels. :)
>
> HTH.
>
> 1: http://lists.perl.org/list/beginners.html ,
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/
> 2: https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Simple#COMMUNITY-AND-SUPPORT
I submitted an issue with the CGI module
https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/issues/195
Sorry I missed that 'perlbug' is only for core modules.
Take care,
Frederick
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CGI::formbuilder
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Re: At wits end CGI
CGI::Application.pm is version 4.5
Somehow I’ve managed to move beyond this problem. Probably because I dumped
perlbrew.
I’m now getting a time out. With traces and multiple debug statements I’m
getting to this location for the time out:
sub AUTOLOAD {
my($constname);
($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://o;
$! = 0;
my $val = constant($constname, @_ ? $_[0] : 0);
if ($! != 0) {
croak Your vendor has not defined Socket macro $constname, used;
}
eval sub $AUTOLOAD { $val };
goto $AUTOLOAD;
}
This is from file
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Socket6.pm
I hit this inside the debugger.
The code below is from my module that inherits CGI::Application.
From some reason I don’t understand it calls
CGI::Application::Plugin::TT::import the first thing.
I can’t find where that is coming from.
Why is it calling this before it even calls the “new” in Application.pm
warn Got to here : . __FILE__ . ':'.__LINE__.\n;
use strict;
use base 'CGI::Application';
warn Got to here : . __FILE__ . ':'.__LINE__.\n;
use CGI::Application::Plugin::TT; # Template Toolkit
use CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH (qw/dbh_config dbh/); # Database handles
On Nov 25, 2014, at 10:29 AM, John SJ Anderson
geneh...@genehack.orgmailto:geneh...@genehack.org wrote:
What version of CGI::Application do you have installed?
4.5
Assuming the most recent one
(https://metacpan.org/source/MARKSTOS/CGI-Application-4.50/lib/CGI/Application.pm),
line 1951 is:
if ( $p{path_info} $self-query-path_info() ) {
$self-query calls the 'query' method, defined at line 493. I'm
guessing code flow goes into the 'else' half of the branch there, and
ends up calling $self-cgiapp_get_query() (on line 503).
That method is defined at line 250, and ultimately returns the result
of calling CGI-new().
I would suggest either putting in some debug print() statements into
that cgiapp_get_query() routine, or using the debugger to stop
execution inside there and looking at what that call from CGI-new()
is actually returning.
chrs,
john.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Patton, Billy N
billy.pat...@h3net.commailto:billy.pat...@h3net.com wrote:
OS : mac 10.10.1 Yosemite
Perl version : 5.16.0 (perlbrew)
I have file cp.cgi that is the top level
It uses CP.pm
which inherits Base.pm
which inherits CGI::Application
CGI::Application Requires CGI.pm
CGI.pm has a use CGI::Util qw(… unescape …);
When I try and run cp.cgi I get a timeout.
The erro log only tells me that I get a timeout
[Tue Nov 25 09:13:53.677383 2014] [cgi:warn] [pid 461] [client ::1:63053]
AH01220: Timeout waiting for output from CGI script
/Library/WebServer/Documents/cportal/html/cp.cgi, referer:
http://localhost/index.html
when I try and run it from the command line : perl cp.cgi
I get
h1Software error:/h1
preUndefined subroutine CGI::unescape
at
/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application.pm
line 1951.
/pre
p
For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message
and the time and date of the error.
/p
[Tue Nov 25 09:34:59 2014] cp.cgi: Undefined subroutine CGI::unescape
[Tue Nov 25 09:34:59 2014] cp.cgi: at
/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application.pm
line 1951.
unescape exists in CGI::Util.pm and is exported.
When I put a Dumper \%INC I get: Making sure that I wasn’t mixing too many
version
'CGI/Application.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application.pm’,
'CGI/Application/Plugin/Redirect.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/Redirect.pm',
'CGI/Application/Plugin/TT.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/TT.pm’,
'CGI/Application/Plugin/ValidateRM.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/ValidateRM.pm’,
'CGI/Application/Plugin/LogDispatch.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/LogDispatch.pm',
'CGI/Carp.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Carp.pm’,
'CGI/Application/Plugin/Config/YAML.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/Config/YAML.pm',
'CGI/Application/Plugin/DBH.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/DBH.pm’,
'CGI/Util.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Util.pm’,
'CGI/Application/Plugin/Forward.pm' =
'/Users/bpatto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/CGI/Application/Plugin/Forward.pm’,
unescape does not exist in Application, even though it tells me line 1951
%INC shows me that it is including the right file.
Util.pm is exporting
package CGI::Util;
use base 'Exporter';
require 5.008001;
use
Re: CGI::Application::Plugin::TT
Doing the perlbrew thing now. perl -MTemplate -e 1 returned nothing But I did a sudo cpan Template and it told me it was up to date. Hopefully this perlbrew will help things out. thanks for the info. On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:50 AM, John SJ Anderson geneh...@genehack.orgmailto:geneh...@genehack.org wrote: perl -MTemplate -e 1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: CGI::Application::Plugin::TT
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Patton, Billy N billy.pat...@h3net.com wrote: perl -MTemplate -e 1 It doesn't do anything except check that the module Template is available via the standard include path (see (capital V): perl -V for the @INC array of paths) -e 1 is just a script of one char, the digit one, which perl considers to be okay. Try (misspell your module name): perl -MTomplate -e 1 Can't locate Tomplate.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .). BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
CGI::Application::Plugin::TT
I’ve , mistakenly, updated to Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite.
That completely caused my app to fail in Apache 2.4.
Looks like it might be a version problem for TT.pm
I’ve tried to install a new TT.pm from cpan but it tells me that it is up to
date.
I’ve tried changing the Template-new to HTML::Template- new with bad results.
I’ve tried changing use Template to use HTML::Template with bad results
I’ve tried changing the use Template 2.0; to use Template. results are still it
fails;
It looks like MAC 10.10 was released with a bunch of incompatible versions of
perl modules.
What can I do?
The error I’m getting is :
Can't locate object method new via package Template at
/Library/Perl/5.18/CGI/Application/Plugin/TT.pm line 60.
TT.pm snippett :
use Template 2.0;
...
# Get a Template Toolkit object. The same object
# will be returned everytime this method is called
# during a request cycle.
#
sub tt_obj {
my $self = shift;
my ($tt, $options, $frompkg) = _get_object_or_options($self);
if (!$tt) {
my $tt_options = $options-{TEMPLATE_OPTIONS};
if (keys %{$options-{TEMPLATE_OPTIONS}}) {
$tt = Template-new( $options-{TEMPLATE_OPTIONS} ) || carp Can't
load Template;
} else {
$tt = Template-new || carp Can't load Template;
}
_set_object($frompkg||$self, $tt);
}
return $tt;
}
...
-
HTML/Template.pm
$HTML::Template::VERSION = '2.95’;
sub new {
my $pkg = shift;
my $self;
{ my %hash; $self = bless(\%hash, $pkg); }
...
Re: CGI::Application::Plugin::TT
On Nov 12, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Patton, Billy N wrote: I’ve , mistakenly, updated to Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite. That completely caused my app to fail in Apache 2.4. And that's one of the many reasons I'm not updating my MacBook. ;) You really have too try Perlbrew http://perlbrew.pl/. It's perfect for this. You can install any version of Perl that you want, and then install the modules you'll need. You can even install multiple versions of Perl and each version can have it's own set of modules! Best of all, it leaves your system version of Perl untouched, which helps prevent problems for other apps that rely on it. Perlbrew, along with cpanm, will make your Perl setup as painless as possible. However, I do remember the initial setup was somewhat confusing because of a lack of documentation at the time. Hopefully that's changed by now. I've been using it for years now and I'd never go back. Frank SurfShopCART https://github.com/surfshopcart/surfshop -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: CGI::Application::Plugin::TT
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Patton, Billy N billy.pat...@h3net.com wrote: I’ve , mistakenly, updated to Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite. That completely caused my app to fail in Apache 2.4. Looks like it might be a version problem for TT.pm TT.pm is really 'Template.pm'. Are you sure the Perl you're using has it installed? What does 'perl -MTemplate -e 1' tell you if you run it in a terminal? On my Yosemite install, the system perl (at /usr/bin/perl) does not have Template.pm installed. I'm not sure whether installed modules were propagated across the update process (because I don't rely on the system perl for anything), but I would strongly suspect they were _not_. You should consider -- *strongly* consider -- using perlbrew or plenv to set up a Perl installation that is not under the control of your operating system vendor. That helps reduce the occurrence of these issues. I’ve tried to install a new TT.pm from cpan but it tells me that it is up to date. I’ve tried changing the Template-new to HTML::Template- new with bad results. I’ve tried changing use Template to use HTML::Template with bad results I’ve tried changing the use Template 2.0; to use Template. results are still it fails; One more note. This ^^ is what thrashing looks like. Don't start randomly changing around pieces of your code hoping things will magically work. Look at the actual error message that you're getting, from the code that used to work. What does that say? j. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Testing my CGI
I’m using WWW::Mechanize for testing my CGI.
I’m having trouble with the $mech-tick
Here’s my code :
ok($mech-form_name('cdr_format'),getting form cdr_format);
print pAllFields = . $mech-value('pAllFields') . \n;
219- ok($mech-tick('pAllFields',1), 'Setting checkbox to native CDR format');
220- ok($mech-tick('pAllFields’,0), 'Setting checkbox to native CDR format’);
Here’s a snippet of the html :
div id='myForm'
form name='cdr_format' method='POST' action='file_admin.cgi'
input type='hidden' name='rm' value='process_cdr_format'
input type='hidden' name='CGISESSID'
value='ec4c3463d5a7f9d04d2924968413f240'
input type='hidden' name='cdr_format' value='1'
table border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='0' width='100%'
tr
td class='fieldLabel' width='60%'
We would like the files in native CDR format:
/td
td class='field'
input type='checkbox' class='checkbox' name='pAllFields' value='1'
/td
/tr
When I execute I get this :
ok 40 - getting form cdr_format
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./test_cportal.pl
line 218.
pAllFields =
not ok 41 - Setting checkbox to native CDR format
# Failed test 'Setting checkbox to native CDR format'
# at ./test_cportal.pl line 219.
not ok 42 - Setting checkbox to native CDR format
# Failed test 'Setting checkbox to native CDR format'
# at ./test_cportal.pl line 220.
Here’s the documentation from WWW::Mechanize
$mech-tick( $name, $value [, $set] )
Ticks the first checkbox that has both the name and value associated with it
on the current form. Dies if there is no named check box for that value.
Passing in a false value as the third optional argument will cause the checkbox
to be unticked.
Re: Testing my CGI
Look at the source code for the module. The 'tick' method just uses a
bare 'return' on success, which means it's going to fail an ok() test
regardless of whether or not it works.
You may also want to look at Test::WWW::Mechanize.
chrs,
john.
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I’m using WWW::Mechanize for testing my CGI.
I’m having trouble with the $mech-tick
Here’s my code :
ok($mech-form_name('cdr_format'),getting form cdr_format);
print pAllFields = . $mech-value('pAllFields') . \n;
219- ok($mech-tick('pAllFields',1), 'Setting checkbox to native CDR
format');
220- ok($mech-tick('pAllFields’,0), 'Setting checkbox to native CDR
format’);
Here’s a snippet of the html :
div id='myForm'
form name='cdr_format' method='POST' action='file_admin.cgi'
input type='hidden' name='rm' value='process_cdr_format'
input type='hidden' name='CGISESSID'
value='ec4c3463d5a7f9d04d2924968413f240'
input type='hidden' name='cdr_format' value='1'
table border='0' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='0' width='100%'
tr
td class='fieldLabel' width='60%'
We would like the files in native CDR format:
/td
td class='field'
input type='checkbox' class='checkbox' name='pAllFields' value='1'
/td
/tr
When I execute I get this :
ok 40 - getting form cdr_format
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
./test_cportal.pl line 218.
pAllFields =
not ok 41 - Setting checkbox to native CDR format
# Failed test 'Setting checkbox to native CDR format'
# at ./test_cportal.pl line 219.
not ok 42 - Setting checkbox to native CDR format
# Failed test 'Setting checkbox to native CDR format'
# at ./test_cportal.pl line 220.
Here’s the documentation from WWW::Mechanize
$mech-tick( $name, $value [, $set] )
Ticks the first checkbox that has both the name and value associated with
it on the current form. Dies if there is no named check box for that value.
Passing in a false value as the third optional argument will cause the
checkbox to be unticked.
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Re: cgi and inheritance
I haven't seen any PErl code with -log- like that before. I've only seen code
like that with = error(*).
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Sent: Oct 6, 2014 9:33 AM
To: beginners-cgi@perl.org beginners-cgi@perl.org
Subject: cgi and inheritance
I’ve recently inherited some code that hasn’t been touched in over 5 years.
It’s all cgi and OOPerl.
I’ve ran across this one statement that I don’t understand.
$self-log-error(*)
I know the self
and I’ve traced the error to CGI::Application through inheritance.
But it’s the -log- that has me confused.
I have no class named log
I find no place that is does a new on log anywhere in the family tree.
I cannot find any log class anywhere in the family tree of inheritance.
Is this just a method of using a perl hash that I’m not familiar with?
Could it be rewritten as
$self-{‘log’}-error(*);
Using perl 5.16.2
on MAC 10.9.5
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cgi and inheritance
I’ve recently inherited some code that hasn’t been touched in over 5 years.
It’s all cgi and OOPerl.
I’ve ran across this one statement that I don’t understand.
$self-log-error(*)
I know the self
and I’ve traced the error to CGI::Application through inheritance.
But it’s the -log- that has me confused.
I have no class named log
I find no place that is does a new on log anywhere in the family tree.
I cannot find any log class anywhere in the family tree of inheritance.
Is this just a method of using a perl hash that I’m not familiar with?
Could it be rewritten as
$self-{‘log’}-error(*);
Using perl 5.16.2
on MAC 10.9.5
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Re: cgi and inheritance
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Patton, Billy billy.pat...@h3net.com wrote: I’ve recently inherited some code that hasn’t been touched in over 5 years. It’s all cgi and OOPerl. I’ve ran across this one statement that I don’t understand. $self-log-error(*) That's calling the 'error()' method, on the result returned by calling the 'log()' method, on the current object ($self). You could also write that as: my $log = $self-log(); $log-error(*) (I'm assuming '*' is a stand-in for the actual arguments.) chrs, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Perl CGI-html quotation marks
Hello again,
Apologies for the delay. I shut my laptop in frustration for the night
yesterday.
Here is a chunk of the code:
my $html2 = '/Results.tar.gz
div style=text-align: center;button type=submitDownload
Files/button/div
p style=text-align: center;Click the button below to View your
alignment in JBrowse Viewer/p
input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open(\'
bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/JBrowse-1.11.4/index.html?data=http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/UserFiles
';
my $html4 =
'/datatracks=DNA,transcript_with_no_features,Geneshighlight=\')
/body
/html';
print $html1;
print $directory;
print $html3;
print $directory;
print $html2;
print $directory;
print $html4;
Another person in my group had a look at it today and let me know that I
hadn't closed the button THING with a . Apparently with that it's able
to handle the single quotation marks.
What a fool!
Thanks,
James.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
On 07/03/2014 12:16 PM, James Kerwin wrote:
Hello all,
I'm currently using Perl CGI to generate a Results webpage. This
results webpage specifies unique directories generated within the script
and print these in between the blocks of html so various download and
display buttons work.
My problem is that I'm using a button to open a file in a new tab and
the new tab URL uses single quotes and won't work using double or none.
This then messes up the printing of the html in the Perl script.
Can anybody help me? (Example provided below).
input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open('THE URL OF THE FILE I WANT TO OPEN IN A NEW TAB
UPON CLICKING THE BUTTON')
it would be most helpful if you posted your relevant perl code. if you say
it messes up printing html i sense you are not creating your html strings
in the best way.
uri
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Re: Perl CGI-html quotation marks
On 07/04/2014 12:41 AM, Shaji Kalidasan wrote:
Here's one way to do it
print BUTTON;
input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open('http://www.example.com')
BUTTON
or:
print qq{input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open('http://www.example.com')};
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Re: Perl CGI-html quotation marks
On 07/04/2014 07:18 AM, James Kerwin wrote: Hello again, Apologies for the delay. I shut my laptop in frustration for the night yesterday. Here is a chunk of the code: my $html2 = '/Results.tar.gz div style=text-align: center;button type=submitDownload Files/button/div p style=text-align: center;Click the button below to View your alignment in JBrowse Viewer/p input type=button value=Open Window onclick=window.open(\'bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/JBrowse-1.11.4/index.html?data=http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/UserFiles http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/JBrowse-1.11.4/index.html?data=http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/UserFiles'; my $html4 = '/datatracks=DNA,transcript_with_no_features,Geneshighlight=\') /body /html'; print $html1; print $directory; print $html3; print $directory; print $html2; print $directory; print $html4; Another person in my group had a look at it today and let me know that I hadn't closed the button THING with a . Apparently with that it's able to handle the single quotation marks. regardless of the html error you must do a better job with your strings. don't use single quotes when you have single quotes in the string. use a here document (someone posted that for you) or an alternate delimiter (another post showed that). that way you don't need to escape your internal quote chars and you can see the text better and find any missing angles and such. also you can print all those in one print call. just pass the variables in a list to print. no need to print one at a time. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Perl CGI-html quotation marks
Hi all, thanks for helping James (= the original poster). On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:56:05 -0400 Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 07/04/2014 07:18 AM, James Kerwin wrote: Hello again, Apologies for the delay. I shut my laptop in frustration for the night yesterday. Here is a chunk of the code: my $html2 = '/Results.tar.gz div style=text-align: center;button type=submitDownload Files/button/div p style=text-align: center;Click the button below to View your alignment in JBrowse Viewer/p input type=button value=Open Window onclick=window.open(\'bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/JBrowse-1.11.4/index.html?data=http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/UserFiles http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/JBrowse-1.11.4/index.html?data=http://bioinf6.bioc.le.ac.uk/~srpgrp3/UserFiles'; my $html4 = '/datatracks=DNA,transcript_with_no_features,Geneshighlight=\') /body /html'; print $html1; print $directory; print $html3; print $directory; print $html2; print $directory; print $html4; Another person in my group had a look at it today and let me know that I hadn't closed the button THING with a . Apparently with that it's able to handle the single quotation marks. regardless of the html error you must do a better job with your strings. don't use single quotes when you have single quotes in the string. use a here document (someone posted that for you) or an alternate delimiter (another post showed that). that way you don't need to escape your internal quote chars and you can see the text better and find any missing angles and such. Indeed. One should note that Perl 5 has very good quoting support with its here-documents, interpolation, variable delimiters, and also - templating systems such as Template Toolkit. There's a thread about it on Sayeret Lambda (= an Israeli forum of programming languages’ enthusiasts): * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sayeret-lambda/oTdS8d0hqoE It sparked an active discussion there. When doing Perl, one should make a wise use of all that. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Apple Inc. is Evil - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/ What does “IDK” stand for? I don’t know. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Perl CGI-html quotation marks
Hello all,
I'm currently using Perl CGI to generate a Results webpage. This results
webpage specifies unique directories generated within the script and print
these in between the blocks of html so various download and display buttons
work.
My problem is that I'm using a button to open a file in a new tab and the
new tab URL uses single quotes and won't work using double or none. This
then messes up the printing of the html in the Perl script.
Can anybody help me? (Example provided below).
input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open('THE URL OF THE FILE I WANT TO OPEN IN A NEW TAB UPON
CLICKING THE BUTTON')
If this isn't clear or it's a total sin to post html in an email to the
list then I apologise.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
James.
Re: Perl CGI-html quotation marks
On 07/03/2014 12:16 PM, James Kerwin wrote:
Hello all,
I'm currently using Perl CGI to generate a Results webpage. This
results webpage specifies unique directories generated within the script
and print these in between the blocks of html so various download and
display buttons work.
My problem is that I'm using a button to open a file in a new tab and
the new tab URL uses single quotes and won't work using double or none.
This then messes up the printing of the html in the Perl script.
Can anybody help me? (Example provided below).
input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open('THE URL OF THE FILE I WANT TO OPEN IN A NEW TAB
UPON CLICKING THE BUTTON')
it would be most helpful if you posted your relevant perl code. if you
say it messes up printing html i sense you are not creating your html
strings in the best way.
uri
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Re: Perl CGI-html quotation marks
Here's one way to do it
print BUTTON;
input type=button value=Open Window onclick=window.open('
http://www.example.com')
BUTTON
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
On 07/03/2014 12:16 PM, James Kerwin wrote:
Hello all,
I'm currently using Perl CGI to generate a Results webpage. This
results webpage specifies unique directories generated within the script
and print these in between the blocks of html so various download and
display buttons work.
My problem is that I'm using a button to open a file in a new tab and
the new tab URL uses single quotes and won't work using double or none.
This then messes up the printing of the html in the Perl script.
Can anybody help me? (Example provided below).
input type=button value=Open Window
onclick=window.open('THE URL OF THE FILE I WANT TO OPEN IN A NEW TAB
UPON CLICKING THE BUTTON')
it would be most helpful if you posted your relevant perl code. if you say
it messes up printing html i sense you are not creating your html strings
in the best way.
uri
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Re: CGI script produces blank screen
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Re: CGI script produces blank screen
Perhaps some module on which the script depends is not available/installed on that server. But yes.. looking into the web server error log should help. On 28 June 2014 08:35, John SJ Anderson geneh...@genehack.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:34 PM, SSC_perl p...@surfshopcart.com wrote: Any input would be greatly appreciated! Look in the web server error log. Thanks for the pointers, guys. It turned out to be an errant line in the .htaccess file on that domain. It would have paid to take that out of the equation first. Frank http://www.surfshopcart.com/ Setting up shop has never been easier!
CGI script produces blank screen
I don't have a lot of info to go on just yet, so please bear with me. I'm experiencing a problem with a blank screen on a certain install of SurfShop. When on a product detail page that has options, if I try to add that item to the cart w/o selecting any of the options, it should return the current page with a warning that I need to select the options. However, I'm getting a completely blank screen. Even when viewing the source, there's no HTML being output. The odd part is that I copied this same installation to another server -- so it's an exact duplicate -- and it functions normally there! As far as I can tell, the code seems O.K. The only difference that I can see, so far, are the different servers. One's running Perl 5.8.8 and the other has 5.10.1. The latter is the one that's working correctly. What kind of tests can I do to see why it's acting up on one server and not another? I'm already running with warnings and CGI::Carp, but without any output, I'm at a loss as what to try next. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Frank http://www.surfshopcart.com/ Setting up shop has never been easier! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: CGI script produces blank screen
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Re: Wanted: Help with DBI/CGI in Windows 8.1/IIS
On 06/25/2014 09:52 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 06/25/2014 07:53 PM, siegfr...@heintze.com wrote:
The following program works great inside of IIS when called from
internet explorer (IE).
It also works great if I remove the comment characters (#) in column 1
and run it at the cygwin bash command prompt. It displays the expected
HTML.
However, if I only remove the first comment character in column one and
run it in IIS, internet explorer times out and complains about a bad
header being returned.
Can someone help me so I can incorporate DBI and microsoft access in my
web page?
Thanks
Siegfried
use DBI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Cookie;
#my $dbh = DBI-connect(dbi:ODBC:driver=microsoft access driver
(*.mdb, *.accdb);dbq=c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Nwind.accdb);
# $dbh-{LongReadLen} = 66000;
# $dbh-{LongTruncOk} = 0;
# my $stmt=SELECT * FROM Customers;
# my $sth = $dbh-prepare($stmt);
# $sth-execute || die Could not execute SQL statement $stmt ... maybe
invalid?;
my $q =new CGI;
my $ct = strftime %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y\n, localtime;
$q = new CGI;# create new CGI object
print $q-header,# create the HTTP header
$q-start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
$q-h1(hello world $ct); # level 1 header
print $q-end_html; # end the HTML
I can never remember which list want top or bottom posts so if I got the wrong
end, please be gentle.
The first question that comes to mind is which perl binary is installed on your
windows system?
The next question is what do the iis logs tell you? The calls to CGI look ok,
as do the DBI calls except you may want to quote the strings with embedded
spaces.
I've very conversant in IIS and Apache on both Linux and Windows so feel free
to contact me off list.
Bruce
One more thing that came up while testing your code... Did you configure the
ODBC datasource?
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Re: Wanted: Help with DBI/CGI in Windows 8.1/IIS
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Bruce Ferrell bferr...@baywinds.org
wrote:
On 06/25/2014 09:52 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 06/25/2014 07:53 PM, siegfr...@heintze.com wrote:
use DBI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Cookie;
#my $dbh = DBI-connect(dbi:ODBC:driver=microsoft access driver
(*.mdb, *.accdb);dbq=c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Nwind.accdb);
# $dbh-{LongReadLen} = 66000;
# $dbh-{LongTruncOk} = 0;
# my $stmt=SELECT * FROM Customers;
# my $sth = $dbh-prepare($stmt);
# $sth-execute || die Could not execute SQL statement $stmt ... maybe
invalid?;
my $q =new CGI;
my $ct = strftime %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y\n, localtime;
$q = new CGI;# create new CGI object
print $q-header,# create the HTTP header
$q-start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
$q-h1(hello world $ct); # level 1 header
print $q-end_html; # end the HTML
snip...
One more thing that came up while testing your code... Did you configure
the ODBC datasource?
Is Microsoft Access installed on the server? DBI will need it to read the
file.
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Wanted: Help with DBI/CGI in Windows 8.1/IIS
The following program works great inside of IIS when called from
internet explorer (IE).
It also works great if I remove the comment characters (#) in column 1
and run it at the cygwin bash command prompt. It displays the expected
HTML.
However, if I only remove the first comment character in column one and
run it in IIS, internet explorer times out and complains about a bad
header being returned.
Can someone help me so I can incorporate DBI and microsoft access in my
web page?
Thanks
Siegfried
use DBI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Cookie;
#my $dbh = DBI-connect(dbi:ODBC:driver=microsoft access driver
(*.mdb, *.accdb);dbq=c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Nwind.accdb);
# $dbh-{LongReadLen} = 66000;
# $dbh-{LongTruncOk} = 0;
# my $stmt=SELECT * FROM Customers;
# my $sth = $dbh-prepare($stmt);
# $sth-execute || die Could not execute SQL statement $stmt ... maybe
invalid?;
my $q =new CGI;
my $ct = strftime %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y\n, localtime;
$q = new CGI;# create new CGI object
print $q-header,# create the HTTP header
$q-start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
$q-h1(hello world $ct); # level 1 header
print $q-end_html; # end the HTML
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Re: Wanted: Help with DBI/CGI in Windows 8.1/IIS
On 06/25/2014 07:53 PM, siegfr...@heintze.com wrote:
The following program works great inside of IIS when called from
internet explorer (IE).
It also works great if I remove the comment characters (#) in column 1
and run it at the cygwin bash command prompt. It displays the expected
HTML.
However, if I only remove the first comment character in column one and
run it in IIS, internet explorer times out and complains about a bad
header being returned.
Can someone help me so I can incorporate DBI and microsoft access in my
web page?
Thanks
Siegfried
use DBI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Cookie;
#my $dbh = DBI-connect(dbi:ODBC:driver=microsoft access driver
(*.mdb, *.accdb);dbq=c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Nwind.accdb);
# $dbh-{LongReadLen} = 66000;
# $dbh-{LongTruncOk} = 0;
# my $stmt=SELECT * FROM Customers;
# my $sth = $dbh-prepare($stmt);
# $sth-execute || die Could not execute SQL statement $stmt ... maybe
invalid?;
my $q =new CGI;
my $ct = strftime %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y\n, localtime;
$q = new CGI;# create new CGI object
print $q-header,# create the HTTP header
$q-start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
$q-h1(hello world $ct); # level 1 header
print $q-end_html; # end the HTML
I can never remember which list want top or bottom posts so if I got the wrong
end, please be gentle.
The first question that comes to mind is which perl binary is installed on your
windows system?
The next question is what do the iis logs tell you? The calls to CGI look ok,
as do the DBI calls except you may want to quote the strings with embedded
spaces.
I've very conversant in IIS and Apache on both Linux and Windows so feel free
to contact me off list.
Bruce
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Re: bash to perl for cgi
Le 18/06/2014 02:46, Goke Aruna a écrit :
When you run the scripts from the cli, what do you get on your screen?
What about Apache configuration is cgi script executable.
What permission do you have on your script?
Hope those questions can give you a guide.
Hi
thanks for the answer
*error message**:*
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the
error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused
the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
*rights for files and folders * rwxr-xr-x
*error message in logs : *
[Wed Jun 18 17:43:38 2014] [error] [client xxx] [host
www.une-histoire-de-famille.net] Premature end of script headers: geneweb
I tried any kind of permissions, checked on hidden characters in files,
this file with the same permissions works fine
~~
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.cgi by Bill Weinman [http://bw.org/]
# Copyright 1995-2008 The BearHeart Group, LLC
# Free Software: Use and distribution under the same terms as perl.
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
print foreach (
Content-Type: text/plain\n\n,
BW Test version 5.0\n,
Copyright 1995-2008 The BearHeart Group, LLC\n\n,
Versions:\n=\n,
perl: $]\n,
CGI: $CGI::VERSION\n
);
my $q = CGI::Vars();
print \nCGI Values:\n=\n;
foreach my $k ( sort keys %$q ) {
print $k [$q-{$k}]\n;
}
print \nEnvironment Variables:\n=\n;
foreach my $k ( sort keys %ENV ) {
print $k [$ENV{$k}]\n;
}
~~
thanks for the help.
Philippe
Re: bash to perl for cgi
It may need to be owned by apache or httpd.
Whoever is running httpd.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Philippe Rousselot
rousse...@rousselot.org wrote:
Le 18/06/2014 02:46, Goke Aruna a écrit :
When you run the scripts from the cli, what do you get on your screen?
What about Apache configuration is cgi script executable.
What permission do you have on your script?
Hope those questions can give you a guide.
Hi
thanks for the answer
error message:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the
error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the
error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
rights for files and folders rwxr-xr-x
error message in logs :
[Wed Jun 18 17:43:38 2014] [error] [client xxx] [host
www.une-histoire-de-famille.net] Premature end of script headers: geneweb
I tried any kind of permissions, checked on hidden characters in files,
this file with the same permissions works fine
~~
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.cgi by Bill Weinman [http://bw.org/]
# Copyright 1995-2008 The BearHeart Group, LLC
# Free Software: Use and distribution under the same terms as perl.
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
print foreach (
Content-Type: text/plain\n\n,
BW Test version 5.0\n,
Copyright 1995-2008 The BearHeart Group, LLC\n\n,
Versions:\n=\n,
perl: $]\n,
CGI: $CGI::VERSION\n
);
my $q = CGI::Vars();
print \nCGI Values:\n=\n;
foreach my $k ( sort keys %$q ) {
print $k [$q-{$k}]\n;
}
print \nEnvironment Variables:\n=\n;
foreach my $k ( sort keys %ENV ) {
print $k [$ENV{$k}]\n;
}
~~
thanks for the help.
Philippe
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bash to perl for cgi
Hi,
I know nothing about perl and I have a problem with a cgi script for a
website called geneweb (genealogy stuff).
I moved from one web site to another and now the site does not work and
give me a 500 error message.
cgi-bin and a perl script work fine. Here is the script I used to test :
~~
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.cgi by Bill Weinman [http://bw.org/]
# Copyright 1995-2008 The BearHeart Group, LLC
# Free Software: Use and distribution under the same terms as perl.
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
print foreach (
Content-Type: text/plain\n\n,
BW Test version 5.0\n,
Copyright 1995-2008 The BearHeart Group, LLC\n\n,
Versions:\n=\n,
perl: $]\n,
CGI: $CGI::VERSION\n
);
my $q = CGI::Vars();
print \nCGI Values:\n=\n;
foreach my $k ( sort keys %$q ) {
print $k [$q-{$k}]\n;
}
print \nEnvironment Variables:\n=\n;
foreach my $k ( sort keys %ENV ) {
print $k [$ENV{$k}]\n;
}
~~
the script I need to call the program is the following
~~
#!/bin/sh
DIR=/homez.xxx//www/geneweb607/gw
cd $DIR
$DIR/gwd -cgi 2/dev/null
~~
I guessed, but I may be wrong that I cannot use a sh script (I checked
for files and folders rights)
Could someone give me a translation in perl of this script so I can try
out this idea
For info the host provider is OVH and the website is stored on a 'Perso
2014'
In advance thank you very much
Philippe
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Re: bash to perl for cgi
On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:10 AM, Philippe Rousselot rousse...@rousselot.org wrote: Hi, I know nothing about perl and I have a problem with a cgi script for a website called geneweb (genealogy stuff). I moved from one web site to another and now the site does not work and give me a 500 error message. Do you have access to the web server logs? Those could be very helpful in diagnosing your error. the script I need to call the program is the following ~~ #!/bin/sh DIR=/homez.xxx//www/geneweb607/gw cd $DIR $DIR/gwd -cgi 2/dev/null ~~ I guessed, but I may be wrong that I cannot use a sh script (I checked for files and folders rights) I am no web expert, but as far as I know, there is no reason why you can’t run a shell script as a CGI program. However, there may be security issues, and you may have reconfigure your server. You are probably better off using Perl instead. Could someone give me a translation in perl of this script so I can try out this idea Here is a Perl program that does the same thing as your shell script: #!/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $dir = q(/homez.xxx//www/geneweb607/gw); system(“cd $dir;$dir/gwd -cgi 2/dev/null”)’ Good luck! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: bash to perl for cgi
When you run the scripts from the cli, what do you get on your screen? What about Apache configuration is cgi script executable. What permission do you have on your script? Hope those questions can give you a guide. Regards On Jun 17, 2014 3:00 PM, Jim Gibson j...@gibson.org wrote: On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:10 AM, Philippe Rousselot rousse...@rousselot.org wrote: Hi, I know nothing about perl and I have a problem with a cgi script for a website called geneweb (genealogy stuff). I moved from one web site to another and now the site does not work and give me a 500 error message. Do you have access to the web server logs? Those could be very helpful in diagnosing your error. the script I need to call the program is the following ~~ #!/bin/sh DIR=/homez.xxx//www/geneweb607/gw cd $DIR $DIR/gwd -cgi 2/dev/null ~~ I guessed, but I may be wrong that I cannot use a sh script (I checked for files and folders rights) I am no web expert, but as far as I know, there is no reason why you can’t run a shell script as a CGI program. However, there may be security issues, and you may have reconfigure your server. You are probably better off using Perl instead. Could someone give me a translation in perl of this script so I can try out this idea Here is a Perl program that does the same thing as your shell script: #!/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $dir = q(/homez.xxx//www/geneweb607/gw); system(“cd $dir;$dir/gwd -cgi 2/dev/null”)’ Good luck! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Running older cgi scripts on nginx
Hello, I've set up a new cloud account to get familiar with nginx and I'd like to know if it's possible to run an older cgi perl script, and if so, how would I go about doing that? I think I read somewhere that it could be done with Plack, but I can't find any instructions on how to do it. Can someone help me with this? Grazie mille! Angela -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Running older cgi scripts on nginx
On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Angela Barone wrote: Hello, I've set up a new cloud account to get familiar with nginx and I'd like to know if it's possible to run an older cgi perl script, and if so, how would I go about doing that? I think I read somewhere that it could be done with Plack, but I can't find any instructions on how to do it. Can someone help me with this? I suggest you enter the string 'nginx cgi' into a search engine and follow the links. You can also read the nginx documentation on how to execute CGI programs here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration Scroll down to the sections titled CGI, FastCGI examples, and Embedded Perl examples. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: BEGIN Block in CGI Script
Thank you. On 1/28/2013 3:07 PM, Shawn Corey wrote: The attached CGI is useful for determining what a script's environment is.
BEGIN Block in CGI Script
I have written some CGI applications that start
with this code:
BEGIN {
my $homedir = ( getpwuid($) )[7];
my @user_include;
foreach my $path (@INC) {
if ( -d $homedir . '/perl' . $path ) {
push @user_include, $homedir . '/perl' . $path;
}
}
unshift @INC, @user_include;
}
I have failed to document exactly what this section
is doing and would like to correct that. Am I correct
when I say that this code includes all the directories
where Perl is located (C:/Perl in my case) in @INC, so
there is little chance of not finding a module I have
installed and am calling in this CGI script?
Mike Flannigan
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Re: BEGIN Block in CGI Script
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Mike Flannigan mikef...@att.net wrote:
I have written some CGI applications that start
with this code:
BEGIN {
my $homedir = ( getpwuid($) )[7];
my @user_include;
foreach my $path (@INC) {
if ( -d $homedir . '/perl' . $path ) {
push @user_include, $homedir . '/perl' . $path;
}
}
unshift @INC, @user_include;
}
I have failed to document exactly what this section
is doing and would like to correct that. Am I correct
when I say that this code includes all the directories
where Perl is located (C:/Perl in my case) in @INC, so
there is little chance of not finding a module I have
installed and am calling in this CGI script?
Mike Flannigan
Hi,
I may be wrong, as I haven't used CGI or done much web programming,
but here is my take.
getpwuid seems like a unix call - are you sure this code is running on Windows.
This call is returning the home directory of the effective user of the script.
It the loops through each directory in the Perl include directories (@INC).
If a directory with the same name as a directory in the Perl include
path exists under the a perl subdirectory of the effective user's home
directory, it is added to the Perl include directories. More
importantly, it is 'unshifted', so it is placed ahead of the usual
include directory that it matches. Thus the user's Perl subdirectory
will be used instead of the standard Perl installation library.
I do not think this would work on Windows, as the include directories
include the drive (C:,etc) in their name.
Not sure whether it would work on Unix (linux, etc), but that seems
like what it was designed for.
HTH,
Ken
HTH,
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Re: BEGIN Block in CGI Script
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:30:38 -0600
Mike Flannigan mikef...@att.net wrote:
I have written some CGI applications that start
with this code:
BEGIN {
my $homedir = ( getpwuid($) )[7];
my @user_include;
foreach my $path (@INC) {
if ( -d $homedir . '/perl' . $path ) {
push @user_include, $homedir . '/perl' . $path;
}
}
unshift @INC, @user_include;
}
I have failed to document exactly what this section
is doing and would like to correct that. Am I correct
when I say that this code includes all the directories
where Perl is located (C:/Perl in my case) in @INC, so
there is little chance of not finding a module I have
installed and am calling in this CGI script?
It's better to keep local modules under the same directory as the
script.
use FindBin qw( $RealBin );
use lib $RealBin;
See:
perldoc FindBin
perldoc lib
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Re: BEGIN Block in CGI Script
Thanks so much for the quick response. I appreciate it. Of course I am putting this cgi file on my website domain and running it there, so in a way it is running on Unix. It is running that code, but whether it is working or not is not clear to me. At the beginning of the code @INC is: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl. When the code is finished @INC is almost identical: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . The space at the end is the only thing that is different. I am printing $path right after the foreach for the first @INC printout. I use 'print \n\n\@INC = @INC\n;' for the 2nd printout of @INC. That @INC data is apparently from the website domain. I get the digest version of this list, so it may take me a while to respond to all posters. Mike On 1/27/2013 10:50 AM, Ken Slater wrote: Hi, I may be wrong, as I haven't used CGI or done much web programming, but here is my take. getpwuid seems like a unix call - are you sure this code is running on Windows. This call is returning the home directory of the effective user of the script. It the loops through each directory in the Perl include directories (@INC). If a directory with the same name as a directory in the Perl include path exists under the a perl subdirectory of the effective user's home directory, it is added to the Perl include directories. More importantly, it is 'unshifted', so it is placed ahead of the usual include directory that it matches. Thus the user's Perl subdirectory will be used instead of the standard Perl installation library. I do not think this would work on Windows, as the include directories include the drive (C:,etc) in their name. Not sure whether it would work on Unix (linux, etc), but that seems like what it was designed for. HTH, Ken HTH, Ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: BEGIN Block in CGI Script
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:30:17 -0600 Mike Flannigan mikef...@att.net wrote: That @INC data is apparently from the website domain. The attached CGI is useful for determining what a script's environment is. -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn env.cgi Description: Binary data -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Mojolicious as replacement for cgi?
Hi Kavita, On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:26:15 +0530 kavita kulkarni kavitahkulka...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is there any simple documentation/book/link besides mojo-lite/CPAN online documentation that will help me to understand the OO Perl programming and web based perl programming? I am naive in Perl OO progamming and have to get quickly started with perl mojo. By naive do you mean inexperienced or not proficient? I'll assume so. Thanks in advance. Please see the various resources at http://perl-begin.org/ and especially the ones at: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/object-oriented/ * http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/ * http://perl-begin.org/uses/web/ Regards, Shlomi Fish Regards, Kavita :-) On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis mtzanida...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed (09/01/13), kavita kulkarni wrote: Hello, I am having a cgi script to present DB monitoring results. Now, I am thinking about migrating that script into mojo (Mojolocious) and I have below queries in my mind: 1. What's advantage of using mojo over cgi? 2. Is mojolocious ready to deploy in production? if so, which version goes well with perl 5.8.8 on Linux? 3. Any other suggestion? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kavita :-) Hi there. Mojolicious is great and Mojolicious::Lite would be ideal for your project. Plus, it has great docs and tutorials. To answers your questions: 1. Security, simplicity. 2. Better check out perlbrew http://perlbrew.pl/ to install a newer perl, without interfering with your distro's packages. A nice production setup is nginx as reverse proxy in front of mojo's hypnotoad. 3. Dancer (http://www.perldancer.org/) is also another option, but I prefer Mojo. Best, -- Manolis Tzanidakis http://mtzanidakis.com/ mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Beginners Site for the Vim text editor - http://vim.begin-site.org/ PerlJam I’m trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Mojolicious as replacement for cgi?
On Thu (10/01/13), kavita kulkarni wrote: Hello, Is there any simple documentation/book/link besides mojo-lite/CPAN online documentation that will help me to understand the OO Perl programming and web based perl programming? I am naive in Perl OO progamming and have to get quickly started with perl mojo. Thanks in advance. Hello, make sure to watch mojo screencasts at http://mojocasts.com/ and follow through their tutorials. If you need a book to get started - following best practices - I highly recommend the latest edition of Modern Perl, http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/ . Give it a couple of days and you'll be on your way. -- Manolis Tzanidakis http://mtzanidakis.com/ mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Mojolicious as replacement for cgi?
Hello, I am having a cgi script to present DB monitoring results. Now, I am thinking about migrating that script into mojo (Mojolocious) and I have below queries in my mind: 1. What's advantage of using mojo over cgi? 2. Is mojolocious ready to deploy in production? if so, which version goes well with perl 5.8.8 on Linux? 3. Any other suggestion? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kavita :-)
Re: Mojolicious as replacement for cgi?
On Wed (09/01/13), kavita kulkarni wrote: Hello, I am having a cgi script to present DB monitoring results. Now, I am thinking about migrating that script into mojo (Mojolocious) and I have below queries in my mind: 1. What's advantage of using mojo over cgi? 2. Is mojolocious ready to deploy in production? if so, which version goes well with perl 5.8.8 on Linux? 3. Any other suggestion? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kavita :-) Hi there. Mojolicious is great and Mojolicious::Lite would be ideal for your project. Plus, it has great docs and tutorials. To answers your questions: 1. Security, simplicity. 2. Better check out perlbrew http://perlbrew.pl/ to install a newer perl, without interfering with your distro's packages. A nice production setup is nginx as reverse proxy in front of mojo's hypnotoad. 3. Dancer (http://www.perldancer.org/) is also another option, but I prefer Mojo. Best, -- Manolis Tzanidakis http://mtzanidakis.com/ mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Mojolicious as replacement for cgi?
Thanks Manolis for your reply. However, I am not supposed to upgrade my perl. Regards, Kavita :-) On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis mtzanida...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed (09/01/13), kavita kulkarni wrote: Hello, I am having a cgi script to present DB monitoring results. Now, I am thinking about migrating that script into mojo (Mojolocious) and I have below queries in my mind: 1. What's advantage of using mojo over cgi? 2. Is mojolocious ready to deploy in production? if so, which version goes well with perl 5.8.8 on Linux? 3. Any other suggestion? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kavita :-) Hi there. Mojolicious is great and Mojolicious::Lite would be ideal for your project. Plus, it has great docs and tutorials. To answers your questions: 1. Security, simplicity. 2. Better check out perlbrew http://perlbrew.pl/ to install a newer perl, without interfering with your distro's packages. A nice production setup is nginx as reverse proxy in front of mojo's hypnotoad. 3. Dancer (http://www.perldancer.org/) is also another option, but I prefer Mojo. Best, -- Manolis Tzanidakis http://mtzanidakis.com/ mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Mojolicious as replacement for cgi?
Hello, Is there any simple documentation/book/link besides mojo-lite/CPAN online documentation that will help me to understand the OO Perl programming and web based perl programming? I am naive in Perl OO progamming and have to get quickly started with perl mojo. Thanks in advance. Regards, Kavita :-) On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis mtzanida...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed (09/01/13), kavita kulkarni wrote: Hello, I am having a cgi script to present DB monitoring results. Now, I am thinking about migrating that script into mojo (Mojolocious) and I have below queries in my mind: 1. What's advantage of using mojo over cgi? 2. Is mojolocious ready to deploy in production? if so, which version goes well with perl 5.8.8 on Linux? 3. Any other suggestion? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kavita :-) Hi there. Mojolicious is great and Mojolicious::Lite would be ideal for your project. Plus, it has great docs and tutorials. To answers your questions: 1. Security, simplicity. 2. Better check out perlbrew http://perlbrew.pl/ to install a newer perl, without interfering with your distro's packages. A nice production setup is nginx as reverse proxy in front of mojo's hypnotoad. 3. Dancer (http://www.perldancer.org/) is also another option, but I prefer Mojo. Best, -- Manolis Tzanidakis http://mtzanidakis.com/ mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Is CGI module has bug for Win7?
Thanks all of you for your suggestions, yesterday late evening I figured it out about returning \r\n . I also checked after setting input record separator($/) variable to \r\n which was also working. I like the idea about setting binmode. Thanks again. -- Praveen Kumar http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kumarpraveen http://fedoraproject.org/ http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com
Is CGI module has bug for Win7?
Hi folks, Check out below code, is this as expected or kind of bug? code use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $product_id=484f2faee9334559a1a72b4cdc056818; print Enter NT Login ID : ; chomp (my $user = STDIN);#praveenku...@gmail.com print Enter NT Password : ; chomp (my $password = STDIN); #randompass print Enter Build Number : ; chomp (my $bfolder = STDIN); #12 print User : $user, Password : $password, build : $bfolder; === Output = C:\Users\pkumar22\Desktop\MAT_Testingperl matrix-getbuildoutputurl.pl Enter NT Login ID : praveenku...@gmail.com Enter NT Password : randompass Enter Build Number : 12 , build : 12 randompassil.com -- This is what I am getting User : praveenku...@gmail.com, Password : randompass, build : 12 -- This is what I expect. /code -- Praveen Kumar http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kumarpraveen http://fedoraproject.org/ http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com
Re: Is CGI module has bug for Win7?
Hi Praveen, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:57:36 +0530 Praveen Kumar kumarpraveen.nit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Check out below code, is this as expected or kind of bug? code use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $product_id=484f2faee9334559a1a72b4cdc056818; print Enter NT Login ID : ; chomp (my $user = STDIN);#praveenku...@gmail.com it is possible that the CGI module traps the STDIN because it is part of the CGI specification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface Furthermore, you should look into PSGI/Plack as an alternative to CGI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Web_Server_Gateway_Interface Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Humanity - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity danderson “We are NO LONGER the knights who say ‘BitKeeper’. We are now the knights who say ‘git, git, git, cogito — Linus!’.” Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Is CGI module has bug for Win7?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Praveen Kumar kumarpraveen.nit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Check out below code, is this as expected or kind of bug? code use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $product_id=484f2faee9334559a1a72b4cdc056818; print Enter NT Login ID : ; chomp (my $user = STDIN);#praveenku...@gmail.com print Enter NT Password : ; chomp (my $password = STDIN); #randompass print Enter Build Number : ; chomp (my $bfolder = STDIN); #12 print User : $user, Password : $password, build : $bfolder; === Output = C:\Users\pkumar22\Desktop\MAT_Testingperl matrix-getbuildoutputurl.pl Enter NT Login ID : praveenku...@gmail.com Enter NT Password : randompass Enter Build Number : 12 , build : 12 randompassil.com -- This is what I am getting User : praveenku...@gmail.com, Password : randompass, build : 12 -- This is what I expect. /code -- Praveen Kumar http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kumarpraveen http://fedoraproject.org/ http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com Hello, I don't use CGI, but if you look at the values returned from reading STDIN, you will notice they have a carriage return and a newline as the last two characters. If CGI is not in the mix, the values only have a newline (no carriage return). Someone more familiar with GCI may be able to explain this. By the way, I tested on Windows XP. HTH, Ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Is CGI module has bug for Win7?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Praveen Kumar kumarpraveen.nit...@gmail.com wrote: , build : 12 randompassil.com -- This is what I am getting User : praveenku...@gmail.com, Password : randompass, build : 12 -- Yeah, stack them up and: User : praveenku...@gmail.com , Password : randompass , build : 12 -- That is: User : praveenku...@gmail.com\r, Password : randompass\r, build : 12\r -- your chomps are removing \n (newline) from the input but not \r (carriage return) - Perl normally does that correctly by deciding which OS you're on. Hmm: http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=55540 Seems to say that Win32 CGI.pm sets binmode on STDIN (and STDERR, STDOUT). Does adding: $/ = \r\n; after use CGI; make a difference? -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Is CGI module has bug for Win7?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Praveen Kumar kumarpraveen.nit...@gmail.com wrote: , build : 12 randompassil.com -- This is what I am getting User : praveenku...@gmail.com, Password : randompass, build : 12 -- Yeah, stack them up and: User : praveenku...@gmail.com , Password : randompass , build : 12 -- That is: User : praveenku...@gmail.com\r, Password : randompass\r, build : 12\r -- your chomps are removing \n (newline) from the input but not \r (carriage return) - Perl normally does that correctly by deciding which OS you're on. Hmm: http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=55540 Seems to say that Win32 CGI.pm sets binmode on STDIN (and STDERR, STDOUT). Does adding: $/ = \r\n; after use CGI; Or, just: binmode STDIN, :crlf; This is Perl's layer to implement DOS/Windows like CRLF line endings. See: perldoc perlio -- Charles DeRykus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
On 18 Sep 2012, at 13:34, Chris Stinemetz chrisstinem...@gmail.com wrote: I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web development in the past. CGI or Perl? For a long time CGI with Perl was a popular combination so there are a lot of documents which conflate the two. It is possible to do CGI programming in PHP (which you already know), but PSGI[1] is the flavour du jour for server side web programming with Perl. CGI is still a plausible option though. It has the benefit of simplicity (but isn't the most efficient option). [1] http://plackperl.org/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
I have my Perl cgi development environment all set-up. I actually
wound up setting up an instance through Amazon AWS.
Very cool service by Amazon.
I am having issues with my first script and have hopes someone may be
able to explain to me whey it isn't working correctly.
The error is coming form line 11 and the error is:
Premature end of script headers: test2.cgi
Bareword left not allowed while strict subs in use at
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi line 7.
Execution of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.
Premature end of script headers: test2.cgi
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 use warnings;
3 use strict;
4 use CGI;
5
6 my $q = CGI-new;
7 print $q-header(-type='text/html'),
8 $q-start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
9 $q-h1({-align=right},'hello world'), # level 1 header
10 $q-h1({-align=left});
11 $q-h1('some','contents');
12 $q-end_html; # end the HTML
Thank you in advance,
-Chris
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Re: cgi development environment
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Chris Stinemetz
chrisstinem...@gmail.comwrote:
am having issues with my first script and have hopes someone may be
able to explain to me whey it isn't working correctly.
The error is coming form line 11 and the error is:
Premature end of script headers: test2.cgi
Bareword left not allowed while strict subs in use at
The error message is a major clue. Try quotes around left
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi line 7.
Execution of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.
Premature end of script headers: test2.cgi
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 use warnings;
3 use strict;
4 use CGI;
5
6 my $q = CGI-new;
7 print $q-header(-type='text/html'),
8 $q-start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
9 $q-h1({-align=right},'hello world'), # level 1 header
10 $q-h1({-align=left});
11 $q-h1('some','contents');
12 $q-end_html; # end the HTML
You have a couple other issues. Since you have one print statement, spread
over multiple lines, the semi-colons on lines 10 and 11 are bugs. They
should be commas. The semi-colons terminate the statement resulting in
syntax errors.
Mike
Re: cgi development environment
You have a couple other issues. Since you have one print statement, spread over multiple lines, the semi-colons on lines 10 and 11 are bugs. They should be commas. The semi-colons terminate the statement resulting in syntax errors. Mike Thank you. That fixed it. -Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
Also check out http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.08/CGI/Carp.pm
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chrisstinem...@gmail.com wrote:
You have a couple other issues. Since you have one print statement, spread
over multiple lines, the semi-colons on lines 10 and 11 are bugs. They
should be commas. The semi-colons terminate the statement resulting in
syntax errors.
Mike
Thank you. That fixed it.
-Chris
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cgi development environment
Hello list, I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web development in the past. Would someone please let me know of any good tutorials to get windows based web development environment set up and get my feet wet? Thank you in advance, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
On 09/18/2012 08:34 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: Hello list, I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web development in the past. Would someone please let me know of any good tutorials to get windows based web development environment set up and get my feet wet? Thank you in advance, Chris Is there any particular reason it has to be Windows based? Not that I think it matters, but perl works okay on windows, but it's not a platform combo I would recommend. Would you consider learning it in a VM in Linux? Otherwise I can get you setup in windows with Perl if you like. I had to write up a setup sheet when I was working on a project. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux.org 3.5.1-1.fc17.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
On 09/18/12 05:34, Chris Stinemetz wrote: I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web development in the past. Would someone please let me know of any good tutorials to get windows based web development environment set up and get my feet wet? http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+cgi+howto http://www.cgi101.com/book/ http://www.cgi101.com/book/connect/winxp.html HTH, David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
Native Win32 Perl: http://strawberryperl.com/
Win32 Linux compat layer: http://www.cygwin.com/
Free virtualization env: https://www.virtualbox.org/
Perl Win32 API bindings: https://www.google.ca/search?q=perl+win32+ole
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On 09/18/12 05:34, Chris Stinemetz wrote:
I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web
development in the past.
Would someone please let me know of any good tutorials to get windows
based web development environment set up and get my feet wet?
http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+cgi+howto
http://www.cgi101.com/book/
http://www.cgi101.com/book/connect/winxp.html
HTH,
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Re: cgi development environment
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote: On 09/18/2012 08:34 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: Hello list, I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web development in the past. Would someone please let me know of any good tutorials to get windows based web development environment set up and get my feet wet? Thank you in advance, Chris Is there any particular reason it has to be Windows based? Not that I think it matters, but perl works okay on windows, but it's not a platform combo I would recommend. Would you consider learning it in a VM in Linux? Otherwise I can get you setup in windows with Perl if you like. I had to write up a setup sheet when I was working on a project. I'm not against using VM to set-up a linux box. If you have a write up I would like to see it. Thank you, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: cgi development environment
If you're running Windows and have a decent amount of RAM, try
installing vbox and then you should be able to find/follow
instructions online to load/install any of the freely available linux
iso's downloadable from the distro's website. I'd recommend either
Ubuntu or Mint, though your preference may vary. It's generally pretty
straight forward.
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chrisstinem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote:
On 09/18/2012 08:34 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote:
Hello list,
I am very interested in cgi scripting. I have only used php for web
development in the past.
Would someone please let me know of any good tutorials to get windows
based web development environment set up and get my feet wet?
Thank you in advance,
Chris
Is there any particular reason it has to be Windows based? Not that I think
it matters, but perl works okay on windows, but it's not a platform combo I
would recommend.
Would you consider learning it in a VM in Linux?
Otherwise I can get you setup in windows with Perl if you like. I had to
write up a setup sheet when I was working on a project.
I'm not against using VM to set-up a linux box. If you have a write up
I would like to see it.
Thank you,
Chris
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how to set session variable (not session cookie) using perl CGI
I am using CGI.pm on my website, but I generate my pages using TT (template Toolkit). I have few questions: 0. how to have a session variable (not a session cookie)? If I do not want to use cookie, do i have to store session data in a temp file on server and check it with each page load? 1. How do I pass a cookie to the page I am displaying using tt ? is following ok? print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print $q-header(-cookie=$mycookie); ...further code to generate page using tt 2. another related issue is: How do I send a redirect URL to the browser client, based on some conditions in the logic? ty. Rajeev -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: how to set session variable (not session cookie) using perl CGI
On 08/07/12 14:40, Rajeev Prasad wrote: I am using CGI.pm on my website, but I generate my pages using TT (template Toolkit). I have few questions: 0. how to have a session variable (not a session cookie)? If I do not want to use cookie, do i have to store session data in a temp file on server and check it with each page load? 1. How do I pass a cookie to the page I am displaying using tt ? is following ok? print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print $q-header(-cookie=$mycookie); ...further code to generate page using tt 2. another related issue is: How do I send a redirect URL to the browser client, based on some conditions in the logic? http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/stein/ http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924192.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004767.do HTH, David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: how to set session variable (not session cookie) using perl CGI
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Re: how to set session variable (not session cookie) using perl CGI
Thank you Ron and David. - Original Message - From: Ron Bergin r...@i.frys.com To: Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com Cc: perl list beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:36 PM Subject: Re: how to set session variable (not session cookie) using perl CGI -- Rajeev Prasad wrote: I am using CGI.pm on my website, but I generate my pages using TT (template Toolkit). I have few questions: 0. how to have a session variable (not a session cookie)? If I do not want to use cookie, do i have to store session data in a temp file on server and check it with each page load? 1. How do I pass a cookie to the page I am displaying using tt ? is following ok? print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print $q-header(-cookie=$mycookie); ...further code to generate page using tt 2. another related issue is: How do I send a redirect URL to the browser client, based on some conditions in the logic? ty. Rajeev -- http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/CGI-Session-4.48/lib/CGI/Session.pm --- Ron Bergin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
hello can anyone help?
following is failing:
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home,
key_path = /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/,
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
getting error: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
folder permissions are:
drwxrwsr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24 /home/openssh_lib_home
drwxr-sr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24 /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh
-rw--- 1 www-data www-data 1679 2012-06-27 21:30
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 395 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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Re: net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
Hi Rajeev,
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
hello can anyone help?
following is failing:
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home,
key_path = /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/,
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
key_path should point to the file of the private key on the disk - not its
containing directory.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
getting error: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
folder permissions are:
drwxrwsr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24 /home/openssh_lib_home
drwxr-sr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh
-rw--- 1 www-data www-data 1679 2012-06-27 21:30
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 395 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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Re: net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
- Original Message -
From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org
To: Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com
Cc: perl list beginners@perl.org
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options
('key_path')
Hi Rajeev,
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
hello can anyone help?
following is failing:
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home,
key_path = /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/,
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
key_path should point to the file of the private key on the disk - not its
containing directory.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
getting error: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
folder permissions are:
drwxrwsr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24 /home/openssh_lib_home
drwxr-sr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh
-rw--- 1 www-data www-data 1679 2012-06-27 21:30
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 395 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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hello Shlomi,
howdy
I made the change, but it still gives same error.
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home,
key_path = /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa,
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
It works with username password supplied. but i suspect some internal
issue as i can see in error logs - when i run it with userid/passwd and
ctl_dir options, it still tries to access/save ssh info in /var/www.ssh
!!! that however does not stop the ssh from being happening.
key_path options still dont work :(
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Re: net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
so finally I settle down for uid password authentication.
plus i built the .ssh directory under /var/www (home folder for www-data). and
use it as ctl_dir, i get no error message and it works. I am worried about
below:
1. uid/pwd is not safe for scripts, so how can i use key based authentication?
2. since the module insist on having a .ssh folder in home directory(/var/www),
of web user (www-data on linux), how safe is it to have a .ssh folder under
/var/www ??
anyone know?
ty.
Rajeev
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To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org
Cc: perl list beginners@perl.org
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Subject: Re: net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options
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- Original Message -
From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org
To: Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com
Cc: perl list beginners@perl.org
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: net::openssh error in CGI: Invalid or bad combination of options
('key_path')
Hi Rajeev,
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
hello can anyone help?
following is failing:
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home,
key_path = /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/,
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
key_path should point to the file of the private key on the disk - not its
containing directory.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
getting error: Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path')
folder permissions are:
drwxrwsr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24 /home/openssh_lib_home
drwxr-sr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh
-rw--- 1 www-data www-data 1679 2012-06-27 21:30
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 395 2012-06-28 16:24
/home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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hello Shlomi,
howdy
I made the change, but it still gives same error.
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home,
key_path = /home/openssh_lib_home/.ssh/id_rsa,
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
It works with username password supplied. but i suspect some internal
issue as i can see in error logs - when i run it with userid/passwd and
ctl_dir options, it still tries to access/save ssh info in /var/www.ssh
!!! that however does not stop the ssh from being happening.
key_path options still dont work :(
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Net::OpenSSH failing in CGI
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host, user = abc123, ctl_dir = /var/www/mysite.com/www/openssh_lib_home/ ); ssh is not happening, when i catch the error, i get below: error: ctl_dir /var/www/mysite.com/www/openssh_lib_home/ is not secure folder is : $ ls -l /var/www/mysite.com/www/|grep ssh drwx-- 2 abc123 abc123 4096 2012-06-27 20:41 openssh_lib_home I also changed ownership to www-data, but it still throws same error. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-27 21:06 openssh_lib_home background: first it was trying to create under /var/www: was failing due to no permission. unable to create ctl_dir /var/www/.libnet-openssh-perl: No such file or directory so i added option ctl_dir, but i am not sure why is it failing now, to me permissions look ok??? is it still trying to start ssh as www-data (even if it is, then why wont it work if i make www-data as owner of folder)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Net::OpenSSH failing in CGI
i was able to resolve that with creating a folder for www-data under /home
dont know how secure but thats what i could think of..
new problem is:
Could not create directory '/var/www/.ssh'.\r
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/var/www/.ssh/known_hosts).\r
Permission denied
(gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive).\r
well, why is it trying to create anything in /var/www, havent i already defined
ctl_dir ???
and, when i try to use key_path option i get this error: (so i am not using it
for now)
Invalid or bad combination of options ('key_path') at .
currently it looks like:
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /home/openssh_lib_home/
master_opts = [-o = 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no',
-o = 'ConnectTimeout 60'],
);
# ls -l /home|grep open
drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-27 21:54 openssh_lib_home
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Cc:
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Subject: Net::OpenSSH failing in CGI
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH-new($host,
user = abc123,
ctl_dir = /var/www/mysite.com/www/openssh_lib_home/
);
ssh is not happening, when i catch the error, i get below:
error: ctl_dir /var/www/mysite.com/www/openssh_lib_home/ is not secure
folder is :
$ ls -l /var/www/mysite.com/www/|grep ssh
drwx-- 2 abc123 abc123 4096 2012-06-27 20:41 openssh_lib_home
I also changed ownership to www-data, but it still throws same error.
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-06-27 21:06 openssh_lib_home
background: first it was trying to create under /var/www: was failing due to
no permission.
unable to create ctl_dir /var/www/.libnet-openssh-perl: No such file or
directory
so i added option ctl_dir, but i am not sure why is it failing now, to me
permissions look ok??? is it still trying to start ssh as www-data (even if it
is, then why wont it work if i make www-data as owner of folder)?
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Re: Attach iCal event to an cgi mail
After your program has opened SENDMAIL, open it again in the debugger to wherever you want (e.g., open SENDMAIL, 'STDOUT'). Since it's a bareword filehandle, you'll be reopening the same one. On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:59:20 -0700, mstep wrote: Yes the Filehandle is opened for writing. Is there any means to look inside? How to redirect the content of SENDMAIL in the debugger? Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2012 06:19:43 UTC+2 schrieb Peter Scott: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:37:35 -0700, Marek wrote: Could somebody please tell me, how can I see into a FILEHANDLE in Perl debugger? I tried with x SENDMAIL but I get only empty array. That filehandle is open for *output* in your program! What is it you want to examine? -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Attach iCal event to an cgi mail
Hello Peter! Thank you for your reply! Meanwhile my sendmail is working! Was quite difficult to program it. Yes the Filehandle is opened for writing. Is there any means to look inside? How to redirect the content of SENDMAIL in the debugger? Greetings from Munich - heavy thunderstorm here marek Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2012 06:19:43 UTC+2 schrieb Peter Scott: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:37:35 -0700, Marek wrote: Could somebody please tell me, how can I see into a FILEHANDLE in Perl debugger? I tried with x SENDMAIL but I get only empty array. That filehandle is open for *output* in your program! What is it you want to examine? -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Attach iCal event to an cgi mail
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Attach iCal event to an cgi mail
Hello all!
I made up a script for a taxi company to order a taxi. Everything is
working. I have only problems to attach an iCal event, so that you
only have to click on it and it is in your iCalendar.
The shortened script for mailing an attached file for the iCal event
is doing nothing, without any error (script 2). The other script 1 is
working. I don't understand why.
Could somebody please tell me, how can I see into a FILEHANDLE in Perl
debugger? I tried with x SENDMAIL but I get only empty array.
Thank you for your help
marek
***Script 1***
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Inspired from: http://wiki.perl-community.de/Wissensbasis/SendmailAttachments
use strict;
use warnings;
use MIME::Base64;
my $file_path = /Users/you/Documents/webpages/cgi-bin/tmp;
my $file_name = ical_summary.ics;
open(M, |/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi) or die Can't open mailprogram:
'/usr/sbin/sendmail'!\n$!;
print M MIME-Version: 1.0\n;
print M qq(To: Your Name you\@yourdomain.com\n);
print M qq(From: Your Name you\@yourdomain.com\n);
print M qq(Reply-to: Your Name you\@yourdomain.com\n);
print M Subject: E-Mail - the corrected version!\n;
my $boundary = ==.substr(pack('u', ('E-Mail'.'Your Name')),
0, 24);
print M qq(Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=$boundary\n);
print M qq(--$boundary\nContent-Type: text/plain;
charset=UTF-8\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n);
print M qq(\nAnd there is a test again!\n);
print M \n--$boundary\n;
print M qq(Content-type: application/octet-stream;
name=$file_name\n);
print M Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n;
print M qq(Content-Disposition: attachment;\nContent-Type: text/
calendar filename=$file_name\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n);
open(F, $file_path/$file_name) or die Can't open data: '$file_path/
$file_name'!\n$!;
my $data;
{
binmode F;
local $/;
$data = F;
}
close(F) or die Can't close: '$file_path/$file_name'! $!\n;
my $codiert = MIME::Base64::encode($data);
print M \n$codiert\n;
print M qq(\n--$boundary--\n);
close(M) or die Can't close the filehandle M: $!;
__END__
***Script 2*
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use MIME::Base64;
my $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi';
my $postmaster = 'y...@yourdomain.com';
my @recipients = ( 'i...@anothedomain.de', 'ma...@yourdomain.com' );
my $ical_data_start = 20120601T21;
my $ical_data_end = 20120601T22;
my $ical_summary = Dinner;
my $ical_location = Hörwartstr;
my $ical_file_name = $ical_summary . .ics;
my $ical_data = EOICAL;
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:$ical_data_end
SUMMARY:$ical_summary
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:$ical_data_start
DTSTAMP:20120521T190638Z
LOCATION:$ical_location
SEQUENCE:0
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT1H
DESCRIPTION:Event reminder
ACTION:DISPLAY
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
EOICAL
$ical_data = encode_base64($ical_data);
my $reply = 'Your Name y...@yourdomain.com';
my $from = $reply;
my $subject = Abholung vom 1.6.2012, 21:00;
my $body = This is a test :-) Corrected Version! You really have to
pay attention to the line endings between the different headers!\n\tda
maaki;
my $boundary = = . time() . =;
foreach my $to (@recipients) {
my $result;
eval {
local $SIG{__DIE__};
$result = open SENDMAIL, | $mailprog;
};
if ($@) {
die $@ unless $@ =~ /Insecure directory/;
delete $ENV{PATH};
$result = open SENDMAIL, | $mailprog;
}
die Can't open mailprog [$mailprog]\n unless $result;
my $data = EOMAIL;
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: $from
To: $to
Reply-to: $reply
Subject: $subject
Content-Type = multipart/mixed; boundary=$boundary
--$boundary
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
$body
--$boundary
Content-Disposition: attachment;
Content-Type: text/calendar filename=$ical_file_name
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
$ical_data
--$boundary--
EOMAIL
print SENDMAIL $data or die write to sendmail pipe: $!;
close SENDMAIL or die Closing of SENDMAIL failed: $!;
}
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Re: CGI setuid programs
On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:25:35 -0300 Tessio Fechine oiss...@gmail.com wrote to beginners@perl.org: Hello, Everywhere I read about cgi setuid programs says that it is wrong and must never be done, but nobody says how to circumvent the need of it. In my case, I need to read a password from a protected file (read only, owned by root) to connect to a database. How can I do this without running setuid? Thanks! I use sudo. -- @ @ @ Marek Nožka '.@ :*`@ email: marek @t tlapicka d.t net `*' jabber: tlapicka @t jabber d.t spseol d.t cz :: web: http://tlapicka.net/ `' `' Powered by Debian GNU/Linux `.**' ¨¨ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Closing CGI/DB connections
I know this will sound incredibly stupid and n00bish, but I've
encountered something I've never dealt with before. I'm setting up a
perl based web application (this is my first web app, not my first perl)
and have an issue with multiple DBI calls in a page and how I handle
those calls. For the most part, I've keep my code over the years to one
DBI handle per script, so this is new to me.
If I have code like this:
my $dbh = DBI-connect(config('data_source'), config('username'),
config('password'));
my $dao = EmbMon::DAO-new($dbh);
my $sql = qq/SELECT abbreviation from factory/;
my $sth = $dbh-prepare($sql);
$sth-execute();
and I want to run another query to the same DB, can I do something like:
my $sql = qq/Select * from table/;
my $sth = $dbh-prepare($sql);
$sth-execute();
Or do I need to call DBI-connect again? I've curious as to how this is
handled, since I don't see a close() or disconnect() used in any of the
existing, inherited, code, which I normally use just to clean up after
the script runs.
What's the best way to do this?
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Re: Closing CGI/DB connections
i have a whole collection of scripts that does this... at home.
it's been quite a while but i believe what you want is
$dbh-commit;
$dbh-disconnect'
to close a particular connection.
hopefully someone can verify/correct
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.620/DBI.pm
will document all the details of DBI.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote:
I know this will sound incredibly stupid and n00bish, but I've encountered
something I've never dealt with before. I'm setting up a perl based web
application (this is my first web app, not my first perl) and have an issue
with multiple DBI calls in a page and how I handle those calls. For the
most part, I've keep my code over the years to one DBI handle per script,
so this is new to me.
If I have code like this:
my $dbh = DBI-connect(config('data_**source'), config('username'),
config('password'));
my $dao = EmbMon::DAO-new($dbh);
my $sql = qq/SELECT abbreviation from factory/;
my $sth = $dbh-prepare($sql);
$sth-execute();
and I want to run another query to the same DB, can I do something like:
my $sql = qq/Select * from table/;
my $sth = $dbh-prepare($sql);
$sth-execute();
Or do I need to call DBI-connect again? I've curious as to how this is
handled, since I don't see a close() or disconnect() used in any of the
existing, inherited, code, which I normally use just to clean up after the
script runs.
What's the best way to do this?
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CGI setuid programs
Hello, Everywhere I read about cgi setuid programs says that it is wrong and must never be done, but nobody says how to circumvent the need of it. In my case, I need to read a password from a protected file (read only, owned by root) to connect to a database. How can I do this without running setuid? Thanks!
Re: CGI setuid programs
On 05/11/2012 01:25 PM, Tessio Fechine wrote: Everywhere I read about cgi setuid programs says that it is wrong and must never be done, but nobody says how to circumvent the need of it. In my case, I need to read a password from a protected file (read only, owned by root) to connect to a database. How can I do this without running setuid? How about changing the owner of the file to match the user your web server runs under? HTH, David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 01:51:46PM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: I've got, what I hope is a fairly simple problem that someone can point me to the best (or best practices anyway) way to handle it. I'm writing a web app that monitors embroidery machines and generates reports on various metrics for the company management. My issue arises from the fact that I've had to move from a pure perl web interface to PHP for it's additional feature set. Until now, all my output has been generated by perl CGI scripts and output to STDOUT directly, which is fine, but leaves the report rather sparse looking. (FTR, I'm no web designer, I'm here to make it work, not make it pretty, however, I do have to do some preliminary prettifying.) That wasn't a real problem, but now I want to take that output and fold it into the PHP headers and footers I've built to keep from having to rewrite the navigation menus and copyright info and such and I can't quite figure out the best way to do it. I'm late to the conversation. Could you describe the page needs without doing so in terms of php can do? Navigate menus and copyright info and such sound like standard header/footer information. This can easily be handled in Perl. Even easier if you use Template::Toolkit or Mason or fill_in_the_blank templating. Navigation menus can be dynamically derived from a data structure defining previous/next relationships. I'd really like to be able to output this report to the browser directly with PHP code in it to match the format of the rest of the interface, the PHP generates some HTML, Perl does that well. The only way I've come up with is to simply output the report data to disk as an HTML file and then include that output in a PHP page that is correctly formatted. Again, you haven't described why Perl can't create the same HTML the PHP does. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: It's not a problem unless it's chronic. ~ Linda Connor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
RE: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
From: Mark Haney I understand the desire to 'keep with one scripting language', but what I don't understand is why take a stand like that, yet continue to use javascript with PHP and ASP pages. Seems to me, that in the right instance combining the two can be very powerful. Personally, I've found the flexibility in report manipulation of perl to be better than anything else I've used, so I plan on keeping it for reports and using PHP for the front end/UI stuff. This exposes the source of your confusion. Javascript is executed in the browser, while Perl, PHP, ASP and JSP are all executed on the server. So JS simply complements all of the others. The biggest issue is that you cannot depend on JS being allowed on the client. It is seen by many as a security problem, a very reasonable view, so it will be disabled either globally or by using NoScript or similar add-ons. As a result, it should never be used to enable critical elements of a web page, but only to enhance the presentation. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
On 04/26/2012 07:22 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Again, you haven't described why Perl can't create the same HTML the PHP does. Obviously, I didn't explain myself quite well enough. Let me try again. I've got a web app I'm building for the company I work for. It was initially started by an intern in pure perl and was more or less nothing but some CGI to dump data into a DB and pull data out of that DB. The perl code generated basic HTML tables and output and nothing else. Keep in mind here that I've used perl quite a bit, but /never/ in the context of actually building a website. Not from the ground up. I have built them in C#, ASP, and PHP, so I'm no n00b to web design. Just when using perl. I found, that with researching how to do things in perl (like dynamic dropdown boxes) I was having trouble finding resources that worked for me. At that point, I moved to PHP since I knew how to do things with it. That brings me to my problem. I have these reports already built in perl, and all I want is something like this: PHP/HTML form - PERL CGI - PHP/HTML Essentially I want perl to do the grunt work and output it to my PHP framework. The only option I found that works (mostly) is to output the report into a file and then include it in the PHP code. The only issue there is that I can't inject PHP code into the CGI like I do with straight HTML (like print table/table). I thought this would have been a fairly simple question to ask, like I've overlooked the obvious and needed it pointed out. Ah well. At this point, I have no problem at all with ripping out what PHP I've done for straight up perl if I can find the resources that can walk me through the design and framework setup. I noticed replies about perl templates and I'll look into them now. My apologies for sounding like a troll. It was a question I thought had a quick answer. You live and learn. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
On 04/26/2012 08:27 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Mark Haney This exposes the source of your confusion. Javascript is executed in the browser, while Perl, PHP, ASP and JSP are all executed on the server. So JS simply complements all of the others. The biggest issue is that you cannot depend on JS being allowed on the client. It is seen by many as a security problem, a very reasonable view, so it will be disabled either globally or by using NoScript or similar add-ons. As a result, it should never be used to enable critical elements of a web page, but only to enhance the presentation. Bob McConnell Well, I kind of agree with you. It's still a scripting language. Regardless of its function. (At least in my mind.) Still, despite all this, I'm not really any closer to a solution than I was when I sent the OP. I'm looking at the Template-Toolkit, and that might be a long term solution, but the dearth of 'beginner-style' documentation for it makes me think there's a fairly large learning curve with it, and frankly, if that's the case, I might actually stick with the devil I know. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
Just throwing in my two cents: Javascript can run in the backend as well. Take a look at Node.js; http://nodejs.org/ As far as perl on the web end, look into perldancer (http://perldancer.org/), mojolicious (http://mojolicio.us/) or catalyst (http://www.catalystframework.org/) They are all modern MVC web frameworks that should get you up and running quickly. For deployment I would look into PSGI: http://plackperl.org/ Regards, Juan Madrigal Web Developer Web and Emerging Technologies University of Miami Richter Library On 4/26/12 2:19 PM, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote: On 04/26/2012 08:27 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Mark Haney This exposes the source of your confusion. Javascript is executed in the browser, while Perl, PHP, ASP and JSP are all executed on the server. So JS simply complements all of the others. The biggest issue is that you cannot depend on JS being allowed on the client. It is seen by many as a security problem, a very reasonable view, so it will be disabled either globally or by using NoScript or similar add-ons. As a result, it should never be used to enable critical elements of a web page, but only to enhance the presentation. Bob McConnell Well, I kind of agree with you. It's still a scripting language. Regardless of its function. (At least in my mind.) Still, despite all this, I'm not really any closer to a solution than I was when I sent the OP. I'm looking at the Template-Toolkit, and that might be a long term solution, but the dearth of 'beginner-style' documentation for it makes me think there's a fairly large learning curve with it, and frankly, if that's the case, I might actually stick with the devil I know. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
Mark, It seems like you have a hammer, and you really want this to be a nail. It just isn't. It's more like a paper clip. Perl and PHP are both server side scripting languages, which means they run on the server. If you use them, you should pick one because they serve the same purpose. You don't need either of them to create dynamic dropdown boxes. In fact, you don't want to use either of them in this case. If you use them, then you need to refresh the page (or a portion of it). You don't want to send request like that over the network, then process it by a server, return the response back over the network, and then render it in the browser. This isn't the best code design for things that are updating frequently. You want them to be fast and responsive. In order to do that, you really want to run them on the computer that already has the page loaded in memory. Memory which is much faster than an internet connection and two separate machines processing it. I would suggest building the dynamic boxes in javascript (which runs client side). It has a different purpose than PHP or perl and compliments either of them nicely. Matt - Original Message - From: Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com To: beginners@perl.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:19 PM Subject: Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP Well, I kind of agree with you. It's still a scripting language. Regardless of its function. (At least in my mind.) Still, despite all this, I'm not really any closer to a solution than I was when I sent the OP. I'm looking at the Template-Toolkit, and that might be a long term solution, but the dearth of 'beginner-style' documentation for it makes me think there's a fairly large learning curve with it, and frankly, if that's the case, I might actually stick with the devil I know. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:32:29AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: On 04/26/2012 07:22 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Again, you haven't described why Perl can't create the same HTML the PHP does. Obviously, I didn't explain myself quite well enough. Let me try again. I've got a web app I'm building for the company I work for. It was initially started by an intern in pure perl and was more or less nothing but some CGI to dump data into a DB and pull data out of that DB. The perl code generated basic HTML tables and output and nothing else. Well this confuses me from the start :) The perl scripts collect data from the sewing machines and then use CGI to dump the data in a database? CGI isn't necessary to do that part. DBI interfaces to a database and you are hopefully already using that in the scripts. Step 1: separate the function of collecting the data and storing it from the form generation. Step 2: If you really want to continue to use Perl then write the scripts to read the data from the database and present that. If your data is stored in such a way that you can't do that then you have a db design problem to fix. Step 3: Now you have access to your data you can look at templating systems. There are many perl templating systems. TT is a good one - I use it to breaking point. Here is where you start with TT http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.24/lib/Template/Toolkit.pod http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.24/lib/Template/Manual.pod http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.24/lib/Template/Manual/Intro.pod although you may want to look at some of the pointers to MVC frameworks provided below. Keep in mind here that I've used perl quite a bit, but /never/ in the context of actually building a website. Not from the ground up. I have built them in C#, ASP, and PHP, so I'm no n00b to web design. Just when using perl. Perl documention is available via the command line using perldoc e.g. perldoc CGI perldoc DBI If you do have any experience in web design then you'll be aware of the separation of the different parts of a web page - CSS for styling, HTML for layout ring any bells? This separation of function is not new - it's applied in a lot of places I found, that with researching how to do things in perl (like dynamic dropdown boxes) I was having trouble finding resources that worked for me. At that point, I moved to PHP since I knew how to do things with it. There are a number of resources available including the documentation on your system, the Modern Perl book http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/chapter_00.html http://learn.perl.org, http://cpan.org and http://perlmonks.org - long may they all shine under the sun. That brings me to my problem. I have these reports already built in perl, and all I want is something like this: PHP/HTML form - PERL CGI - PHP/HTML This is seriously horrible. One problem I have is that you're cobbling things together and cobbling them poorly with a really half-baked idea and all you really presented was a query about how to solve your half-baked idea . Your simplest route is to learn the CGI module in Perl and use it. Essentially I want perl to do the grunt work and output it to my PHP framework. The only option I found that works (mostly) is to output the report into a file and then include it in the PHP code. The only issue there is that I can't inject PHP code into the CGI like I do with straight HTML (like print table/table). This mad-cap scheme was doomed to failure from the start. Did you check whether you could actually achieve this code injection before you started? I thought this would have been a fairly simple question to ask, like I've overlooked the obvious and needed it pointed out. Ah well. You presented something no one would probably ever think or want to do for a start. This idea of using PHP then Perl then PHP and then -oh I have to dart back into the perl CGI script and hackitaboutinitusingPHP would probably have me showing you the door if I were your boss. Most of us are not telepathic or instantly know what you mean when you fail to explain your real problem - which is that you would like to conitinue to use Perl - and I would hazard a guess that it is because it grabs the data and stores it so well - but you've introduced PHP into the mix because you can write in that. Well, it's hard to think of a good analogy to this but I guess learning to drive a car is a lot like riding a bike so I'll do the latter instead of the former because it will really prepare me for driving a car. Would you do that, too? You will find people here will get puzzled if you merely present a half-baked solution to your problem as the problem you wish to solve. At this point, I have no problem at all with ripping out what PHP h I've done for straight up perl if I can find the resources that can walk me through the design and framework setup. I noticed replies about
