Hello, I have a problem with code -get Internal Server Error 500 and have no idea why script not work. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$searchstring = "alcatel";

$email = "mymail\@domain.com";

$localfile = "/home/www/mp3catalog/search.txt";

use WWW::Search;

$searchobject = new WWW::Search('Ebay');

$query = WWW::Search::escape_query($searchstring);

$searchobject->native_query($query);

# *** put results into two arrays ***

$a = 0;

while ( $resultobject = $searchobject->next_result() ) {

    $a++;

    ( $itemnumber[$a] ) = ( $resultobject->url =~ m!item=(\d+)! );

    $title[$a] = $resultobject->title;

}

# *** eliminate entries already in file ***

open( INFILE, "$localfile" );

while ( $line = <INFILE> ) {

    for ( $b = $a ; $b >= 1 ; $b-- ) {

        if ( $line =~ $itemnumber[$b] ) {

            splice @itemnumber, $b, 1;

            splice @title, $b, 1;

        }

    }

}

close(INFILE);

$a = @itemnumber - 1;

if ( $a == 0 ) { exit; }

# *** save any remaining new entries to file ***

open( OUTFILE, ">>$localfile" );

for ( $b = 1 ; $b <= $a ; $b++ ) {

    print OUTFILE "$itemnumber[$b]\n";

}

close(OUTFILE);

# *** send email with new entries found ***

open( MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" );

print MAIL "To: $email\n";

print MAIL "From: $email\n";

print MAIL "Subject: New $searchstring items found\n\n";

print MAIL "The following new items have been listed on eBay:\n";

for ( $b = 1 ; $b <= $a ; $b++ ) {

    print MAIL "$title[$b]\n";

    print MAIL "http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=$it
+emnumber[$b]\n\n";

}

close(MAIL);

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Server logs can no help much -dont know 
[Thu May 26 20:31:20 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:42 2005] [error] [18321] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:42 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:44 2005] [error] [18331] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:44 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:45 2005] [error] [18337] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:45 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:47 2005] [error] [18353] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:47 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:48 2005] [error] [18366] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:48 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:49 2005] [error] [18370] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:49 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl
[Thu May 26 20:35:51 2005] [error] [18377] VDB# exec failed for '/home
+/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl' [11
+]
[Thu May 26 20:35:51 2005] [error] [client 162.85.112.14] Premature en
+d of script headers: /home/users/mp3catalog/www/mp3catalog.superihost
+.com/cgi-bin/robot.pl

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Janitored by holli - added readmore tags

Retitled by holli from 'SCRIPT REFUSE TO WORK'.

In reply to 'Premature end of script' errors running script as CGI by Anonymous Monk

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