lemur08 wrote:
Hello all, I'm a newbie with mod_perl so please be patient with me.
You wouldn't believe how patient the people on this list are :-)
Two tips for debugging your kind of present problem, and many others
with the web in the future :
1) as a browser use Firefox, with the LiveHttpHeaders add-on.
This add-on will show you, for any request to a web server, which HTTP
headers Firefox is sending out, and with which HTTP headers the response
comes back to the browser.
2) alternatively, consult your perl on-line documentation for the
"lwp-request" program. If you have perl installed on your workstation,
this program is installed also. Depending on the options you give, it
will allow you to send requests to a web server from the command-line,
and show you details about the response (headers or content or both).
Example :
suppose the URL you use to get the image from your server is :
http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/getimage.pl?image=number1
then in a command window, enter (in 1 line) :
lwp-request -m GET -Sed
"http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/getimage.pl?image=number1";
and it will show you which HTTP headers come back with the server
response. With the options above, it will not try to display the
content (the image), which is better in this case.
Try it with www.google.com e.g.
André
