HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade

First off, let me say that I'm not a programmer and am no expert in PERL
by any stretch. So please forgive my ignorance.

I've got 2 PERL scripts that I use on our website (IIS 6). Earlier this
week, I uninstalled v5.8.4.810 and installed v5.8.8.820. Ever since, the
scripts are both not working right. What's happening is that headers are
being displayed in the HTML content that the scripts generate. One
script puts this at the top of every page:

Content-type: text/html

The other puts this:

Content-type: text/html; charset= Cache-Control: public Last-Modified:
Wed Jun 13 14:14:33 2007 Expires: Wed Jun 13 14:14:33 2007

Again, I'm not a programmer. But I wouldn't think the problem lies with
the scripts, since they worked fine with the older version of
ActivePerl...






John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us

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RE: HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade

Just to follow up on this... Looking through ActiveState's bug list, it
appears that this glitch has been around (but unrepaired, for some
reason) for well over a year. I guess I was better off running the old
version instead of trying to upgrade. I really don't know much about
ActiveState, but it amazes me that they would allow a bug like this to
go unresolved for so long.




-----Original Message-----
From: John Hornbuckle
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:19 AM
To: 'activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com'
Subject: HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade

First off, let me say that I'm not a programmer and am no expert in PERL
by any stretch. So please forgive my ignorance.

I've got 2 PERL scripts that I use on our website (IIS 6). Earlier this
week, I uninstalled v5.8.4.810 and installed v5.8.8.820. Ever since, the
scripts are both not working right. What's happening is that headers are
being displayed in the HTML content that the scripts generate. One
script puts this at the top of every page:

Content-type: text/html

The other puts this:

Content-type: text/html; charset= Cache-Control: public Last-Modified:
Wed Jun 13 14:14:33 2007 Expires: Wed Jun 13 14:14:33 2007

Again, I'm not a programmer. But I wouldn't think the problem lies with
the scripts, since they worked fine with the older version of
ActivePerl...






John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us

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RE: HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade

According to ActiveState's bug database, there's a bug with PerlIS (the
DLL that handles Perl scripts rather than perl.exe). As I understand it,
PerlIS is designed to insert headers if it doesn't think the script is
doing so. But there's a glitch that causes it to stick in headers even
when the script has already done so.

This can be fixed by changing the scripts to not insert headers. This is
tricky for me, because as I said I'm not a programmer. And it shouldn't
be necessary, since this bug was documented way back in early 2006. And
remember... The scripts worked perfectly with the older build Perl build
(5.8.4.810). This would strongly indicate that the problem isn't with
the scripts themselves.

Fortunately, we only use 2 Perl scripts here. I was able to muddle
through them to find the parts where they produced headers and comment
those lines out, so they're working okay now.




-----Original Message-----
From: Thurn, Martin [mailto:martin.thurn@ngc.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:30 PM
To: John Hornbuckle
Cc: Thurn, Martin
Subject: RE: HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade


Examine the part of your perl code that prints the headers?
Maybe you need to upgrade the CGI module or something like that?
My point is, perl.exe itself doesn't print anything, perl code prints
stuff. So changing the version of perl.exe is NOT going to change what
your perl code prints out. There MUST be a way for you to fix it, but
for anyone to help you, we need a lot more information about what
EXACTLY your program looks like and how it is installed, etc.

- - Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: activeperl-bounces@listserv.ActiveState.com
[mailto:activeperl-bounces@listserv.ActiveState.com] On Behalf Of John
Hornbuckle
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 14:22
To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: RE: HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade

Just to follow up on this... Looking through ActiveState's bug list, it
appears that this glitch has been around (but unrepaired, for some
reason) for well over a year. I guess I was better off running the old
version instead of trying to upgrade. I really don't know much about
ActiveState, but it amazes me that they would allow a bug like this to
go unresolved for so long.




-----Original Message-----
From: John Hornbuckle
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:19 AM
To: 'activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com'
Subject: HTTP Headers Appearing Since Upgrade

First off, let me say that I'm not a programmer and am no expert in PERL
by any stretch. So please forgive my ignorance.

I've got 2 PERL scripts that I use on our website (IIS 6). Earlier this
week, I uninstalled v5.8.4.810 and installed v5.8.8.820. Ever since, the
scripts are both not working right. What's happening is that headers are
being displayed in the HTML content that the scripts generate. One
script puts this at the top of every page:

Content-type: text/html

The other puts this:

Content-type: text/html; charset= Cache-Control: public Last-Modified:
Wed Jun 13 14:14:33 2007 Expires: Wed Jun 13 14:14:33 2007

Again, I'm not a programmer. But I wouldn't think the problem lies with
the scripts, since they worked fine with the older version of
ActivePerl...






John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us

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