I was recently bequeathed a CGI portal system that I now must make modifications and enhancements. In order to quickly dive in and understand the system, I would like to fire up the debugger on the CGI. In the past I have done this with Devel::ptkdb. However in my current environemnt, ptkdb is not available.

From my reading in perl5db.pl, I'm pretty sure that it's possible to use the default debugger to transmit over TCP using the RemotePort option. However I'm stuck on what the other end of that connection would be. I would rather keep it as simple as possible.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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In reply to remote debugging perl cgi by osunderdog

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