I've been struggling to install a web-based HTML Validator on Mac OS X. There are ways to do it, with lots of patience and makeing various binaries.

So then I had what I thought was a brilliant idea -- BBEdit has a validator, BBEdit is scriptable via AppleScript; I'll use BBEdit as the back end and cut out all the hassle.

This script works just fine from the command line: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Mac::AppleScript::Glue;
use LWP::Simple;
print "Enter URL:\n -> ";
my $URL = <STDIN> || die "$!";

getstore( $URL, "/path/to/tempfile.html" ) || die;

my $BB = new Mac::AppleScript::Glue::Application('BBEdit')
  || die "$!";

my $results =
  $BB->check_syntax(
    file => "path:to:tempfile.html" )
  || die "$!";

# If it worked, $results is now 
# an AoH-type data structure

foreach my $item ( @{$results} ) {
    print 'Line '
      . $item->{'result_line'} . ': '
      . $item->{'message'} . "\n";
}

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So then I tried it as a CGI script and it totally dies at the commented line above, "# if it worked...".

When run from he command line, it works fine.

When run from the browser, it gives no output beyond that point.

I tried to wrap it with an eval{} but it still died.

Any ideas? Any reason why it should run fine from the command line but fail when run from the browser? What should I try or troubleshoot?


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Mac::AppleScript::Glue in CGI script by Cody Pendant

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