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August 3rd, 2000, 03:42 AM

MeijdenB

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Hi all,

I'm trying to write a Perl 5.005_03 script that returns a HTTP-header and prints something like Hello World. When I execute it on Red Hat Linux 6.1 it gives the output that I expect. However when I request that page in MSIE 4 on a different machine I get a 500 Internal Server Error. When I check the apache 1.3.9 logs on my Linux machine it first says "no such file or directory" and the second entry says premature end of script-headers.

Can anybody help me?

I checked the Perl path and priveledges on the file, they are okay.

The code looks something like this:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
#! /usr/bin/perl

my $sessiondid="";
my ($name,$value)=split(/=/,$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});

$value=~tr/+/ /;
$value=~s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
$name=~tr/+/ /;
$name=~s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;

if ($name="session-id") {
$sessionid=$value;
}

open(INFILE,"</home/codes") or die;

$i=0;
@validSessionIds=();
while (<INFILE> ) {
@validSessionIds[$1]=substr($_,0,12);
$i++;
}

close(INFILE);

my $validation = 0;
foreach $x (@validSessionIds) {
if ($x eq $sessionid) {
$validation=1;
}
}

if ($validation) {
print "Set-Cookie: check=truen";
print "Status: 302 Movedn";
print "Location: <A HREF="http://somewhere.comn";" TARGET=_blank>http://somewhere.comn";</A>
print "Content-Type: text/htmlnn";
print "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODYn";
print "Halleluja!n";
print "</BODY></HTML>n";
}
else {
print "Status: 302 Movedn";
print "Location: <A HREF="http://somewhereelse.com/n";" TARGET=_blank>http://somewhereelse.com/n";</A>
print "Content-Type: text/htmlnn";
print "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>n";
print "Ohhh Noooo, You failed!n";
print "</BODY></HTML>n";
}

[/code]

It will retrieve a session-id from the query-string and compare it with some session-id's in a file. If the check succeeds you get a cookie and are redirected to one site. If the check fails you are redirected to some other site containing an error.

Thanks for your help,
Bas

[This message has been edited by MeijdenB (edited August 03, 2000).]

August 3rd, 2000, 04:57 AM

Imo

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I suggest you try programming with the -w option after your #!/usr/bin/perl.

So #!/usr/bin/perl -w... this will give you more warnings etc.

Maybe try programming with strict on as well: use strict;

August 3rd, 2000, 04:33 PM

JonLed

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all use strict; does is causes all kinds or problems if you don't define a variable before it tries to get used... that's not what's causing your problem.

As far as your problem goes, I don't know what to tell you. I'd try out the script, but my server's in crash mode today and I Apache refuses to restart, so F it

August 3rd, 2000, 05:10 PM

freebsd

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What are you trying to do with this...

open(INFILE,"</home/codes") or die;
$i=0;
@validSessionIds=();
while (<INFILE> ) { @validSessionIds[$1]=substr($_,0,12);
$i++;
}
close(INFILE);

>>my $sessiondid="";

Perhaps a mispell?

August 4th, 2000, 01:19 AM

MeijdenB

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by freebsd:
What are you trying to do with this...

open(INFILE,"</home/codes") or die;
$i=0;
@validSessionIds=();
while (<INFILE> ) { @validSessionIds[$1]=substr($_,0,12);
$i++;
}
close(INFILE);

>>my $sessiondid="";

Perhaps a mispell?[/quote]

This file, /home/codes, is written by a different program. It contains some session-ids. With this while-loop I try to put those session-ids in an array. Although $1 should off course be $i. Typo's do happen some time

, but that isn't the problem I guess.

Bas

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