Hello, sages.

I've written a script that works on my local machine but not on the webserver. I narrowed the problem down to one particular line, and for simplicity's sake, I've cut out all of the script except what's necessary to reproduce the error:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
#use HTML::TreeBuilder; #uncommenting this line breaks the script

print "Hello, world."

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When I uncomment the third use line (as shown above), I get a 500 error, and checking the server's logs yields this:

[Fri Aug 22 13:30:23 2008] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Premature end of s
+cript headers: /home/jaker/public_html/scgi-bin/rhyme.pl

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Why might this be happening? With the line commented out, the script runs fine. Am I correct in suspecting that it's because TreeBuilder is not installed on the server? I attempted to place TreeBuilder.pm in my home directory and added a "use lib" line to my script, but I got the same result. The script's permissions are set correctly.

Thank you all very much.
Jake

In reply to using HTML::TreeBuilder causes "premature end" error by jaker

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