CGI process exit not noticed by browser

Murcia has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi confreres,

I have a strange problem. I habe two servers running. One with perl 5.8.0, one with 5.8.1 On both servers I run the same scripts (same CGI-version 2.93) but one script causes that the browser does not end. The same script runs well under 5.8.0! But maybe this is a apache problem? In one server I use apache 1.3.23 (perl 5.8.0) in the other apache2?????????

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my $sortValue;
my $sort = $cgi->param('sort');
print "Value: \$cgi->param('sort')", $cgi->param('sort');
$sortValue = $sort - 1;  ### here is the problem in 5.8.1
exit; ### does not exit!
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any hints?

Murcia _{janitored by ybiC: Retitle from "cgi param", Format cleanup for legibility and to remove *evil* <pre> tags}

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Re: CGI process exit not noticed by browser by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 09, 2003 at 12:54 UTC
Can you check that the Perl process is still running?It might an Apache issue or something else instead. Or is maybe one of the servers configured to use mod_perl? I could imagine this is a buffering issue, do you change the `$\|` variable in your script somewhere? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (2) CGI process exit not noticed by browser by Murcia (Monk) on Dec 09, 2003 at 14:39 UTC
I deinstalled apache2 installed apache 1.3. and now it works! Thanks Murcia	[reply]
Re: CGI process exit not noticed by browser by barrd (Canon) on Dec 09, 2003 at 12:40 UTC
Hi Murcia, ~~Are you certain you know what value is in `$sort`? Also what is the point in assigning a value for `$sortValue` if the next step is only to `exit` (unless there's more to the script)?~~ ~~So, first off double check that what is 'actually' contained in `$cgi->param('sort')` is what you think it is before trying to manipulate it.~~ Update:I didn't read the question properly after a second look and Aristotle is far more likely to be correct esp if you are using `mod_perl` and trying to `exit`... sorry :(	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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