My client has an AIX I-Planet server. I have a couple of CGI applications I have installed and am trying to get to perform predictably. In the first CGI script I output a simple form for data collection, using the modules CGI and Text::Template and the form displays fine. Upon submitting the form (via post) a second script, also using CGI and Text::Template does a couple of calculations and returns the results. Except I-Planet is producing a set of headers prior to my CGI output. So you get the rendered HTML preceeded by the header produced by CGI. When I take out the header producing code everything renders properly, except the CGI header was setting a cookie and setting the expires parameter. I have tried using -nph=>1 in the header statement and removing it. From this second form I have another CGI that can be executed, (this time with a get), that does not set any header flags, but fails in the same way as the second form.

So I can type in a cgi url and it works, but every CGI called as either the result of a submit or a link fails with this header issue. My other application is much larger and complex and before moving onto it, I need to get this resolved.

This definitely could be an AIX I-Planet configuration issue, but my guess is that there may be a monk who has run into this very thing and has a clever solution.

thanks for any insight...

before you ask what the code looks like

print $output->header(-cookie=>$cookie, -expires=>'now' ),$html

this code runs as is on 50+ Apache & IIS servers

g_White

In reply to AIX I-Planet and CGI Headers by gwhite

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