Running Perl CGI from Windows

[Jan Eden]

Hi all,

I hope this is not too off-topic, since I hesitate to subscribe to yet another list...

I wrote a very simple CGI script to read data from an HTML form like this:

my $q = new CGI;

my $name = $q->param('name');
my $message = $q->param('message');
my $email = $q->param('email');

Later, the script opens a pipe to sendmail and prints a message into the pipe. It works fine when I tested it on my machine (Mac OS X). So far, so good.

But accessing the script from a Windows machine gives me the prepared errormessage. From the log I can see that all parameter values end up in the $name variable, along with the names of the second and third parameter. So the value of $name is:

John Doe email=john@doe.com message=This is the message

Note that the first parameter's name does not appear.

I suspect the problem has to do with line endings (\r vs \n), but I cannot figure out at which point of the process line endings could matter.

Any ideas?

TIA,

Jan
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[Jan Eden]

Hi Wolf,

wolf blaum wrote:

>For Quality purpouses, Jan Eden 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004
>20:01 may have been monitored or recorded as:

>>Hi all,

>Hi ...

>>But accessing the script from a Windows machine gives me the
>>prepared error message. From the log I can see that all parameter
>>values end up in the $name variable, along with the names of the
>>second and third parameter. So the value of $name is:
>>
>>John Doe email=john@doe.com message=This is the message
>>
>>Note that the first parameter's name does not appear.

>
>What does your <form action=..... > tag look like?
>

Like this:

<form action="cgi-bin/mail_form.pl" method="post" enctype="text/plain" accept-charset="iso-8859-1"> ... </form>

- Jan
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[Wolf Blaum]

For Quality purpouses, Jan Eden 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004 20:01 may
have been monitored or recorded as:

> Hi all,

Hi
...

> But accessing the script from a Windows machine gives me the prepared error
> message. From the log I can see that all parameter values end up in the
> $name variable, along with the names of the second and third parameter. So
> the value of $name is:
>
> John Doe email=john@doe.com message=This is the message
>
> Note that the first parameter's name does not appear.

What does your <form action=..... > tag look like?

Wolf

[Wolf Blaum]

For Quality purpouses, Jan Eden 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004 20:17 may
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Hi Jan

> Like this:
>
> <form action="cgi-bin/mail_form.pl" method="post" enctype="text/plain"
> accept-charset="iso-8859-1"> ... </form>

Try enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" instead.
I had the very same problem using the xitami webserver on WinOs.
Dont ask me were that problem comes from - no clue:-)

Hope that works,
Wolf