I'm not sure this is really a PERL question; but I'm hoping that someone else has encountered the same problem and knows the answer. I'm running Apache 2.0.43, PERL 5.6.1 on a Win XP machine doing a local intranet. Everything is running through the local's cgi-bin. Everything was running fine under Win98 SE. Bought a new comp with XP and oops, what is going on here? Bill G. has done it to me again...

As you can tell, I am trying to read a directory on a networked machine. The mystery is that..

  1. It worked on 98
  2. It works correctly in a command prompt window on the XP machine
  3. It doesn't work in the browser (IE6). 
print "Content-type:text/html \n\n";

opendir(TRILL, '//Trillian/D/digis/weddings') or die "$!";
@trill= readdir(TRILL);
closedir(TRILL);

rest of code is HTML output

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In reply to XP and Network opendir() by Lurky

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