The following code no longer works for some reason. It DID work last night and I haven't even opened the file since then and now it says there is a premature end of script headers issue.

I added the print "Content-type" that's commented out to see if that would fix the problem. By removing the #, it no longer errors out but produces a blank screen instead.

My original thought is it must be a database problem but even my database syntax has fail safe error responses. So now I'm really stuck. I either get a blank screen or a premature end of script header error.

Can someone take a guess at what's wrong? 

else

    {
               # print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
                use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
        $username = (param('form_user'));
        $userpass = (param('form_pass'));
        $userpass = md5_hex($userpass);

        #check the database

        my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$dbase", $mysql_user, $mysql
+_pass) or print DBI->errstr;
        my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM $users_table WHERE user
+name = '$username' AND user_password = '$userpass'");
        $sth->execute;

        
        if ($sth->rows < 1)
        {
            print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
            print "Login information incorrect.";
            $dbh->disconnect;
            print "<script>window.location = 'login.cgi';</script>\n";
            exit;
        }

        else
        {
            

            while ($data = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
            {
                $u_id = $$data{"user_id"};

                my $auth_user = new CGI::Cookie(-name        =>       
+ 'user_id',
                                                -value        =>      
+  $u_id);
     
                my $auth_pass = new CGI::Cookie(-name        =>       
+ 'user_pass',
                                                -value        =>      
+  $userpass);
                
                
                #$cookieset = $auth_user . ";" . $auth_pass;
                print "Set-Cookie: $auth_user\n";
                print "Set-Cookie: $auth_pass\n";
                
                print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
                print "Welcome " . $username . ", you have successfull
+y logged in.\n";
                                print "$u_id = UID";
                print "<script>window.location = 'index.cgi';</script>
+\n";
            }
        }
        $dbh->disconnect;

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