CGI - Fatal error creating secondary file

[tovenkatesh82]

Hi

I wrote a cgi code and in output another cgi file is getting created.....just
have a look on the code...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
die ’Some disaster!’;
print "Content type:text/plain\n\n";
print "hello";
 

here is the output:

Content-type: text/html
 
<H1>Software error:</H1>
<PRE>Unrecognized character \x92 at C:\Program Files\Perl Express\Debug\temp1.cgi line 4.
</PRE>
<P>
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how is the temp1 file getting generated?

[KevinADC]

are you running this as a CGI? Looks like you are on windows, so the shebang line is probably wrong:

#!/usr/bin/perl

maybe it should be:

#!c:/per/bin/perl.exe

my guess is the server is creating the temp file as a last resort since it doesn't know where else to send the error message.

[tovenkatesh82]

shebang line does not makes a difference for this case.

are you running this as a CGI? Looks like you are on windows, so the shebang line is probably wrong:

#!/usr/bin/perl

maybe it should be:

#!c:/per/bin/perl.exe

my guess is the server is creating the temp file as a last resort since it doesn't know where else to send the error message.

[KevinADC]

whats with the unusual quotes in this line in your post?

die ’Some disaster!’;

instead of ' your code has reverse back-tiks `

when I run your code I get:

Unrecognized character \x92 at C:\PROGRA~1\PERLBU~1\debug\spbdtest.cgi line 6.

Are you trying to test the die function? All your code will do is die.