Re^4: Commenting out carpout causes script to hang

Well, I went and ran the script by telnet to get all the output. There was one line with a missing semim-colon. Fixed it, but made no difference.

Problem is that to run properly, it needs a couple of form values plus the .htaccess username out of $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}, so I can't get it to run completely via telnet - or at least if it's possible, I don't know how.

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Re^5: Commenting out carpout causes script to hang by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2007 at 16:59 UTC
CGI (the module) scripts can be run be from the prompt. See the "DEBUGGING" section. Or you could add statements that print the script's progress to a log. Don't forget to (auto-)flush.	[reply]
Re^6: Commenting out carpout causes script to hang by punch_card_don (Curate) on Oct 10, 2007 at 17:18 UTC
OK, just read the debugging section of CGI.pm - very cool. Thanks. That gets the parameters set. But the script uses the .htaccess username to identify the records to retrieve and gets it like this: `$username = $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};` [download] and I dont see in the documentation how to get that from the command line. UPDATE: But nevermind - I'll just set the username programmatically temporarily.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Commenting out carpout causes script to hang by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2007 at 17:29 UTC
One way in bash: `REMOTE_USER=ikegami example.cgi ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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