Blind leading blind 1

[AnotherAlan]

Hi All, I'm new to this forum as you will no doubt gather when I ask for your help with this;
I am, by trade, a unix sa. We have a new application team that have started to use perl. I've no experience with supporting perl but have been asked to look at the error below and work out the solution. Can anyone start me off by telling me what the problem looks like, i.e is it perl modules or just a bad script writer.

[28/Feb/2008:01:48:26] failure ( 754): for host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx trying to POST /cgi-bin/FindUser/FindUser.pl, cgi_scan_headers reports: HTTP4044: the CGI program /usr/netscape/cgi-bin/FindUser/FindUser.pl did not produce a valid header (name without value: got line "compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/http/request.pm line 5.")

All help appreciated.
Thanks

 

[KevinADC]

"compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/http/request.pm line 5."

it looks like the HTTP::Request module is returning an error that is casuing the main script to bomb because it has not yet printed an http header.

The HTTP::Request module calls anothe module using "require", it looks like that module may not be installed:

require HTTP::Message;

Check for HTTP::Message or install it and see if that helps.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[AnotherAlan]

Thanks for the reply and the pointers Kevin.
Much appreciated.

Alan