Hi Monks,
I have a script that inserts data into a MSSQL using Win32::ADO (dunno if it's relevant)
When run from the command-line it works fine.

The script, however, is used to be called from a cgi. When running the cgi (from the browser) I get "Can't call method "Close" on an undefined value at F:\Apps\Admin\scripts\post_submit.pl line 124."

What makes the script/database connection not to work when called from this cgi?

Note:
The cgi is a cgi that kicks-off the post_submit.pl script using Win32::Process in a separate shell, and immediately redirecting to a logmonitor.cgi, which tails the output of the post_submit.pl script and sends the tail output to the browser. The result is a non-cgi script that is started and not attached to the browser-session.

Oddly enough I have *cgi* scripts using the same database-techniques without a problem.

Need more info? I'd be happy to provide. :-)) Please help, since I'm in deeep trouble if I cannot solve this one..

edit (broquaint): dropped <code> tags and added formatting

In reply to Puzzled by web by john.goor

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