Hello.

I am a 100% perl newbie but am learning. My school has a few kiosk-type computers that only allow sites w/in the school domain to be viewed. This always bugged me so i thought it might be somewhat fun to write a perl cgi that would fetch a page and display it back on the school's server, thus bypassing the filter.

So... what i have is very simple but it works in a terminal but no when i try to view it in a browser... it says "internal server error" which really helps me out. Here we go... 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use LWP::Simple;

my $PAGE="http://www.slashdot.org";

$_ = get $PAGE or die "can't fetch page!";
print $_;

Any help would be excellent, as this simple problem really bugs me...

In reply to very simple question... by dockthepod

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