Hi all, I've searched the net for this issue but so far I've had no luck, so I hope possibly someone here might have experienced the same...

Recently I've run into a weird 'bug' that I can't place. Our perl/cgi script saves data to a file, which is later parsed by a different script to output the content. If I want to edit the data, again the file is parsed and shown in a page with the data in appropriate formfields (title, text etc.).

Now, with IE 4.x and IE 6.x all works fine, but once I edit in IE 5.0, for some reason the content is saved twice in one file. So if I had a field 'title', it now shows 'titletitle' etcetera. I've installed the same script on a different server, and so far there was no problem even with IE5. So I checked the perl versions and on the server where it messes up, Perl 5.005_03 is installed. (on the other, Perl v. 5.6.1)... and I'm assuming this is the cause.

Anyhow, my question - does anyone have more information on this, if indeed the perl v. could be the cause and/or if anyone encountered a similar problem before....?

Let me know - thanks in advance,

l4bs (x@l4bs.com)

In reply to Perl vs. IE5 by l4bs

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