Perl help

[Rose Crans]

What does this mean?

cgi-lib.pl: Unknown Content-type: text/plain

(Besides that I don't know Perl)

[salsbury]

dunno. maybe cgi-lib.pl needs to be updated? what package is this from (cgi-lib.pl is not an uncommon name)?

[Rose Crans]

I got it from http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu
It's version 2.18
i was getting internal server errors and the server said there were errors in the cgi-bin.pl file. so i uploaded a new one. now the script doesn't even run, but i get this error instead.

bah.

[salsbury]

that sure is a big script. anyways, it looks like it'll only get there if the method is not GET, HEAD, blank, or the content-type is not 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' or something'multipart/form-data'. in this case, it appears that the type is 'text/plain'.

maybe you are POST'ing data to it with a content-type: header of text/plain rather than the application/x-www-form-urlencoded type?

[Rose Crans]

Honestly, I have no idea what that means. This script always worked before then I suddenly started getting errors.

Anyway..
Thanks salsbury for replying!

[some_idiot]

Originally posted by Rose Crans
Honestly, I have no idea what that means. This script always worked before then I suddenly started getting errors.

Anyway..
Thanks salsbury for replying!

1. Post what you're using it with.
2. Have you recently installed emPerl
3. Have you recently installed mod_perl (or upgraded Apache)

A standard toss out would be

print "Content-type: text/html\n";

then run a PRE tag.

[Rose Crans]

thanks, some. I'll have to figure this out later.

[some_idiot]

Originally posted by Rose Crans
thanks, some. I'll have to figure this out later.

I have to head out of town, but I'll keep an eye out for you while I'm on the road. It's almost always a simple problem with perl.