This may sound like a goofy point, but I usually cut and paste very common boilerplate bits like this because of my constant fat finger errors.

The two that always seem to bite me
#! /usr/bin/perl
works fine on the command line 'cause usually I am calling
perl somescript.cgi
but blows up in the browser. Drives ya nuts until you find the space between the shebang and the first /

The other one...saving files in PC format (see lots of control M) instead of unix format whilst working across platforms.

One of these days instead of spell checker I will have to work on a *goofy going to cost you fifteen minutes of hair pulling time* checker.

EEjack

In reply to Re: CGI Trying to save file to computer rather then display it in browser by eejack
in thread CGI Trying to save file to computer rather then display it in browser by stuffy

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