Hmm. By the time I'd knocked most of the errors down (and before I read your reply), the browser started giving 500 after all, and the errors were being duly logged.
So just for kicks, I commented out all the my()'s that I'd added, then added your line, and it didn't seem to make any difference to the original hang. Ah well. Thanks anyway! Now I have another Q arising out of this. I have an irreducible pair of 'requires explicit package name' msgs that I can't see how to fix. One example is:- ...perl perl perl require 'bunch_of_constants.pl'; ...perl perl perl $html .= <<EOF; ...html html html <form action="$one_constant" target="_blank" method="POST" name="Data Request" onSubmit="..."> ...html html html EOF $one_constant is defined in bunch_of_constants.pl, which is in the path all right, and which is not a package. I've tried bunch_of_constants::$one_constant and main::$one_constant, but neither achieved anything. What do I now need to change? Rgds, GStC. -----Original Message----- From: Randy W. Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:59 PM To: Graeme St. Clair Cc: beginners-cgi@perl.org Subject: Re: Use Strict Graeme St. Clair wrote: > In accordance with The Rules, I added use strict & use warnings to a > script invoked from a browser page on the same machine. Last time I > did this, as soon as I used the browser page, Apache 'error.log' > promptly showed scads of msgs along the lines of '[Wed Dec 08 11:03:52 > 2004] [error] [client ###.###.###.###] Global symbol "$dbh" requires > explicit package name at c:\PROGRA~1\...\###.pl line 358.' This time, > all that happened was that the browser (IE, alas) walloped off into a > loop (maybe) and nothing new ever came up in the new frame, although there did seem to be disk activity. > > I eventually elicited a list of error msgs by just flat out compiling > the thing from the Windows cmd line, but is there something more > intelligent I could have done to force out some diagnostics on the Apache log? use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser ); See `perldoc CGI::Carp` -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
