Re: Moderation update

It is funny you should mention Perl

I am just in the process of moving quite a few of my customers
websites from their previous home on to a new host on eukhosting and
every one of them that previously used a form using formmail.pl very
successfully, now fails to work

Explorer comes back with -

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete
set of HTTP headers.

I have run a test page with only one return field to check it is not
in the html code with the same error so I know the fault is in the
formmail.pl. But can I see it? Not on your life. lol

Keith Mason

http://www.gospel.co.uk



On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:37:29 +0100, Richard Emblem <remblem@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:34:56 +0100, Mark Goodge
<usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If anyone's interested, I can post a more detailed write-up of how it
works

Please no! ;-)

The obvious alternatives are Perl, Ruby on Rails and Python. I'm
familiar enough with Perl to have used that as easily as PHP, but if
I'd used Perl then I'd probably have wanted to use the Net::NNTP
module from Cpan rather than rolling my own code and that would have
made it less portable as not all modules are available on every host -
I wanted it to be capable of running in a shared hosting environment
if necessary rather than requiring a dedicated server. I'm still at
the experimental stage with Ruby, and didn't want to trust my nascent
skills in the language on a project that I can't afford to get wrong.
As for Python - my opinion is that any language which is whitespace
sensitive is far too anally-retentive for a project that may well get
significantly modified as time goes by.

I think the Bible suggests interpretation of tongues ;-


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