PERL on WINDOWS form will not POST

form "timesout"

[tonyphipps]

We have a perl script running on a dedicated Windows server - the script itself runs, EXCEPT when it is called from a <form method="POST" action="script.cgi"></form> on a page. Then it times out after 90 seconds with a page saying "Cannot find server or DNS Error"

If THE SAME COMMAND is run in the address bar (i.e. [myserver.com...] - it works OK - so it's something to do with the POST method I guess?

Worse still - we have another cgi script running in the same directory - and that works just fine using forms with the POST method!

Any ideas?

[kaled]

Since you have access to the server, you should be able to test the script directly.

Create a .BAT file that sets up the environment vars.

Use a pipe to simulate input (by the post method).

It should look something like this.

@path %path%;D:\perl\bin\; 
set SERVER_NAME=www.domain.com 
set HTTP_REFERER=http://www.domain.com/test.html 
set QUERY_STRING=name1=value1^&name2=value2 
perl <TestData.txt -w perlscript.pl 
@echo. 
pause 

I develop my scripts like this before uploading.

Kaled.

[tonyphipps]

After loads of testing, stripping out ALL unwanted code etc - it transpired that the Windows server didn't like the fact that we were using "use CGI;" in addition to parsing form input with STDIN - the previous UNIX server didn't get bothered by this - so we forgot about the unwanted parse command?!