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crackn101

crackn101

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Dec 27, 2002
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Hi Everyone.
First off, a few specs.
I am running a WinXpPro box with IIS 5.1
I have ActiveState Perl installed and running.
I have setup the extention mapping for .pl and .cgi in IIS.
My perl scripts run just fine in IIS.

My question is this:
In IIS, when i call a webpage that is generated
dynamically using perl, the page loads fine,
but it seems like maybe the perl process did not yet
terminate because the status bar in IE
( at the bottom ) is moving across as if it's
still trying to load the page.
IIS is setup to call the script like this:
c:/perl/bin/perl.exe %s

The only way i can think of to resolve this, is to
call the perl script, which will create a temporary
staic page, and then redirect to that staic page.
That way i know the script will terminate right away.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
 
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Does the script reach the very end - (A print statement at the end will prove that) also I have had the same effect when the end HTML tag is missing.
Obvious I know - but it has kept me up at night.
Keith
 
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Hi audiopro.
Thanks for such a quick response.
Here is my code listed below.
I have tried different variations of the code.
As you can see this is a very simple nothing
of a script. I guess that's why it bugs me so
much. :)
I thinking that maybe it's just an IIS thing.
I could use ASP instead, but I really like using perl.
And don't really want to switch.

Thanks.

<code>
#!c:/Perl/bin/Perl.exe
##
## index.pl -- This script will display the dynamic content

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html>\n";
print '<BODY bgColor=#eaf0ee leftMargin=0 text=#000000 topMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">';


print <<"EOmyPage";
<br><br>
<center>
<h2>
This is a test page only. <br><br><br>
In the future this page will contain online reports.
</h2>
</center>
EOmyPage


print "<br><center>This is the text at the bottom of the page.</center><br>\n";
print "</body>\n";
print "</html>\n";

exit;
</code>
 
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This script runs fine on my machine (Win2k Adv Server,Activestate 5.6 etc)

It may be a problem with the IIS set-up -

If I look at my file-types and edit the .pl entry and go to advanced I have this

"C:\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

I also have this setting locally - hope this helps !

Rab

 
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Hi Rab.
Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried to change the perl path with the
options that your's had, but if I use anything
other than c:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s
then it stops working. Fyi I always restart IIS after
making any changes. :)
The script does work, so i guess that i should be happy.
Sometimes the status bar shows that the
page is "still loading" and sometimes not.
This page is loading up into frames, and
when it does show this, i can always click on the
same link again and the status bar disappears.

Thanks for the ideas.
 
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Get a real webserver - Apache

--Paul

It's important in life to always strike a happy medium, so if you see someone with a crystal ball, and a smile on their face ... smack the fecker
 
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Hey Paul.

LOL.
I wish that I could use Apache !
Personally I wouldn't give ya $10 for IIS.
Unfortunately, we just spent a bundle on a 3rd party
program that lives on IIS using ASP and SQL server.
So at this point, there's not much I can do about it.
Actually I do have apache installed. :)
I let it run for about 6 weeks with a little test page
just for monitoring connectivity.
We are hosting through DSL which stinks.
But this is an 'in-house' program so only a couple of
people will need to connect remotely.
Once we recieved the software though, IIS was setup
and the program installed.

Cheers
 
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