Can anyone suggest why the following runs at the command line but dies on $ftp->ls when run from the web browser? I'm completely baffled. But this really is what's happening - exact same file, does what it says on the can when run from the command line, dies in the browser. Did I mention I was baffled? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use lib '/home/httpd/lib';
use CGI qw/:standard :cgi-lib/;
print header;
use jbr::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
warningsToBrowser(1);

use Net::FTP;

$| = 1;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.xxxxx.xxx", Debug => 0);
$ftp->login('xxxxxxx','xxxxxx');
    
$ftp->cwd('/tst') or die;
my @files = $ftp->ls or die;

print h2 "deleting old pages...";

for (@files) {
    print p $_;
    $ftp->delete($_);
}

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§ George Sherston

In reply to Net::FTP via CGI mystery by George_Sherston

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