It's been a long time since I had to write any Perl CGIs, and even longer since I wasn't root on the machine that I will be deploying the CGI on, so that has led me to this problem...

I'm working from a shopping cart SDK that requires the Net::SSLeay module to perform secure transactions with the transaction server. The SDK also requires modifications to the SSLeay module.

It may be a while since I've had to share a machine, but even I know that making changes to shared module on a co-hosted machine is a BAD THING.

So I went looking for a way to import the altered module into the CGI script and came up with:

BEGIN {
    push @INC, "/path/to/module";
}

use SSLeay;

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Where the module file name is SSLeay.pm and can be found at /path/to/module/SSLeay.pm.

Only problem is, it doesn't work -- sometimes it doesn't work and gives me the 'premature end of script headers' error, other times I got an error about Dynaloader and a version 1.05 vs. 1.08. I'm not using 1.05 AFAIK. Anywhere...

Any takers?

In reply to Ignoring @INC in a use by jreades

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