too much scipt wont write the code

sketchings · May 19, 2003

Ok, my problem is that this script for adding a user has worked once, but now it wont work and I believe I've gone back to the db version and the script that worked.

what happens now is that if I put the whole script in it locks up and doesn't finish printing the page. But if I don't add everything it doesn't lock up just reading the database.

you can see the version that works here

http://www.economicdeveloper.com/cgi-bin/good.pl

the version I'm trying to get to work here:

http://www.economicdeveloper.com/cgi-bin/good.pl

and to see the scripts themselves go here

http://www.economicdeveloper.com/cgi-bin/showPerl.pl

thanx for any help you can give,
alena

MatthewP · May 22, 2003

You have pointed to the same script twice there, not the good and the bad.

lilstevey · May 23, 2003

Hmm, I don't seem to be able to download your code from the showperl script, however, as general practise, it could be an idea when processing form values to 'clean them' through a hash first - as an example, try inserting these lines into line 11 ( just after the get_form statement ) of showPerl.pl

my %cleandata = ( 'good.pl' => undef, 'bad.pl' => undef );

unless ( exists $cleandata{ $fields{showfile} } )
{
print "content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>ERROR</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>An error has occured</BODY></HTML>";
exit;
};

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too much scipt wont write the code

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