in reply to die function error

die won't provide any feedback to the browser, just that an internal server error occured, so the observed behavior is perfectly normal.

Have a look at CGI::Carp if you do want feedback to be sent to the browser.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: die function error
by bsexton1qBob Sexton (Novice) on Dec 03, 2002 at 21:05 UTC
    Unfortunately, I'm new to perl, and a little confused. What would cause the error. It only occurs when I hit the 'if routine.. I tried putting in use CGI::Carp; at the top of the script but no error was written to the error log. All I really want to do is print a message if the $max is exceeded and exit the script. Can you tell me how to replace the If.. statement to do the above??
[reply]
      the perl die command prints to STDERR. normally, if you want some text to be sent back to the web page by your CGI script, use print, even if its a failure message. So: 
      if ( error_condition ) {
    print error message to page;
    die error message to http server log;
}

      [download]
      (substitute appropriate text for the messages)
      CGI::Carp writes no error to the error log, because the errors are sent to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
      there may be flags to CGI::Carp to get the errors to STDERR also, but im no expert there...

      UPDATE:
      CGI::Carp does actually write to STDERR also, so that gets put in your error log too.
[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom