Re: [MacPerl] CGI problems (%ENV scrambled!)

[schneider@pobox.com (Adam Schneider)]

On 12/22/97, Matthias wrote:
>OK, I *think* I found the problem. To verify my theory, could you please
>define an environment variable in the Preferences dialog? If I guessed
>right, the problem should no longer occur afterwards.

Adding an environment variable didn't solve the problem.

BUT, the problem HAS been solved!

When I went to add a variable in the Preferences dialog, there was a blank
line between the already-defined variables and my new one.  Somehow, an empty
environment variable crept in.  At first, I left it in and added a new one
(as per Matthias' suggestion), but all the problems were still there.  But
after I deleted the empty line, everything worked fine, including all my
form-handling scripts.

The question for the MacPerl programmers is: how did an empty env. variable
get in there?  You can't add an empty one manually, but maybe my new version
of MacPerl made a mistake when it read the old version's preferences.
Perhaps the PPC version doesn't correctly read the 68k prefs?

Thanks for the semi-accidental solution!

Adam



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