one of the older CGI::Application-based pieces here has started exhibiting some strange behaviour. one link (well, one submit into one run_mode) just hangs. the wheels spin, but nothing spits out into the error_log, nothing to the screen ... nothing.

i've added  warn "this is the end of sub setup() "; where you would expect a comment like that. even added a warning in the calling script to see where the problem is.

thing is, about ... 2+ minutes after the button is pressed I'll see: 

Premature end of script headers: Financial.cgi, referer: <myscript>/cg
+i-bin/Financial.cgi?cgitoken=&rm=pulluprecord&args=3274

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then nothing for a while again ... then another few minutes (literally minutes) some of the warnings i added to the called runmode get spat out. i've even resorted to a warning just after the usual my $self = shift; line .. and even that doesn't show up in the error log in a timely fashion.

all the other page links work ... i've already revamped the code slightly to use just a hash in sub setup() rather than the subrefs that older versions use ...

so i'm not even sure where to start looking. this is a strange one. anyone have another pointer or three for me?

In reply to strange issue w/ script "hanging" by geektron

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