FYI, if you use 
use CGI qw (:standard);

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that's using CGI.pm in "function" mode, meaning there is no need to instantiate an object to use all the nifty CGI features. This is why print header; works. The "header" function gets imported from CGI into your program by the qw(:standard) bit in "use CGI." There are plenty of docs for this in the POD for CGI.pm.

The long and the short of it is: if you're using qw(:standard) don't bother using $query=new CGI. In fact, as I have discovered on a couple of occassions, doing so can even get you into trouble. :-(

But that's probably not your problem. Whenever you get Error 500 messages it means that your web browser is not getting what it expects, which means your CGI is not providing good, properly header'd information. If you have fatalstobrowser turned on and you're still getting the error it means your program isn't even compiling properly. (If it compiled, FatalsToBrowser would kick in and tell you what was wrong.) To check compilation do a perl -c yourscript.cgi from the command line to root out any nasty syntax errors.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Die function misfunctions by Trimbach
in thread Die function misfunctions by lauragarcia

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