From: RE: Call for Top 10 reasons your form is broken > 1) The script is trying to do something that the http user can't do.
This brings up some issues I have been trying to solve, which may or may not apply here. Basically, I have a web accessed script that (ideally) will go out and read in some files from another machine, do some text processing and spit it out to the browser. The one thing I am having problems with is really a permissions issue I guess. When I run the script from the command line, it runs fine. but when I run it through the browser, it cant open the files on the far end machine. Both machines are wintel boxes with IIS on them. Right now, I have a drive mapped on my native box, to the directory on the far end machine. As I said, this works fine in the command line. I guess my question is, what are my ways to get around this HTTP permissions (or lack there of) problem? Can I make the script run as a different user? Would a module of some sort be better suited for accessing the files (currently using system calls) I can have the script reside on a unix box if that makes things easier. (actually ported it over to wintel, thinking that would make things easier!) The far end box (with the text files) will always be a wintel box. I realize this entails several things outside of perl, so I apologize for its lacking in topicality. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated though! Thanks! JimO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
