Re: [MacPerl] unknown Error message

[Patrick Beart <patrick@WebArchitecture.com>]

On 11/10/98, PwrSurge took the time to write:
>At 5:43 PM -0800 11/9/98, Patrick Beart wrote:
>>Folks:
>>
>>	Newbie to the list, and I have a question:
>>
>>I'm getting a "Premature end of script headers" error in the freeware PERL
>>script that I'm trying to run for the client page. What does this mean?
>>What would you recommend that I use (or do) to troubleshoot this error?
>>Means nothing to me - I don't know where to look.
>
>"Premature end of script headers" - are you using this PERL script as a WWW
>CGI?  If it is, the error simply means that the web browser (or more likely
>the server) doesn't understand why the main body of the message is coming,
>when more headers are expected.
>
>
>What kind of script is this?
>
	Matt Wright's "FormMail.pl" (version 1.5).


>
>Questions like this (no offense, please) give us no help, because we don't
>know what the name of the script is, what it does, etc.  Please be aware
>that the more info you give on the problem, the quicker and easier the
>response will be.
>
	Sorry, didn't realize how important such things are.

	I really don't like "FormMail". It has aspects that I can't find
explanations for (such as when it says that it will mail a copy back to the
sender, and doesn't), and extraneous aspects (such as allowing for the
"Get" method, which I never use for basic forms processing).
	Eventually, I'd like to create my own CGI script for processing
HTML form data. I'm just finding it a bit difficult to get back into that
mathematical/algebraic/logical mindset. Three books on PERL so far, and I
still don't get it.


Patrick Beart


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