I have this Perl CGI script using which i want to ping and fetch files from desired URLs and if a failure occurs the a log file is updated and mailed to desired email addresses.

For this i created a HTML page where the Required values are needed to be inserted.

But the problem is that when the program is unable to Ping the desired URL, the details are neither added into a log file nor the Log file is mailed.

I'm Posting my Script Below. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
 
  use CGI::Ajax;
  use CGI;
  use LWP::Simple;
  use Email::Send;
  use Email::Send::Gmail;
  use Email::MIME::Creator;
  use Net::Ping::External qw(ping);
  use HTML::Template;

    sub Show_HTML {
    my $html = <<EOT;
   <HTML>
   <HEAD><title>Ping or Fetch</title>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>

   <script type="text/javascript">
    
    function CheckIsNumeric()
    {
    var AsciiCode = event.keyCode;
    if ((AsciiCode < 48) || (AsciiCode > 57))
        {
            alert('Please enter only numbers.');
            event.cancelBubble = true; 
            event.returnValue = false; 
        }
    }
    
    function display(selector,inputID)
    {
        var selector=document.getElementById(selector);
        var inputID=document.getElementById(inputID);
        if (selector[selector.selectedIndex].value=="Other")

        {
            inputID.style.display= "block";
        }

        else

        {
            inputID.style.display="none";
        }

    }
    
   </script>
   <form name="orderform" method="GET" > 
   <input type="radio" name="pick" value="Ping" checked="checked">Ping
    &nbsp;
   <input type="radio" name="pick" value="Fetch" />Fetch<br /> 
    <br>
    Enter a number :
    &nbsp;
    &nbsp;
    <input type="text" name="Number" id="myText" size="6" onkeypress =
+"CheckIsNumeric()"/>
    <br>
    <br>
    Enter a URL/URI :
    <input type="text" name="URL" id="URI" size="25">
    <br>
    <br>
    Enter Email ID :
    &nbsp;
    &nbsp;
    <input type="text" name="Email" id="Email" size="40">
    <br>
    <br>
    <input type="submit" value="   Submit   " />
   </Form>
   <form name = "Log" method = "POST" Action="http://localhost/~Appy/l
+og.txt">
  Click Here to View the Log file : 
  <input type="submit" value="Log File" /> 
  <br>
  <hr>
  <br>
  </Form>
  </BODY>
  </HTML>
EOT

    return $html;
  }
  
  my $cgi = new CGI();
  my $pjx = new CGI::Ajax( 'ping_and_fetch' => \&ping_and_fetch );
  
   print $pjx->build_html($cgi,\&Show_HTML);
   
   $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
   if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "GET")
   {
           &ping_and_fetch();
   }
   else
   {}
   
   
   sub ping_and_fetch {

   print "Radio Button's Value is : " . $cgi->url_param('pick');
   print "<br>";

   print "Number's Value is : " . $cgi->url_param('Number');
   print "<br>";

   print "URL's Value is : " . $cgi->url_param('URL');
   print "<br>";

   print "Email's Value is : " . $cgi->url_param('Email');
   print "<br>";
   print "<br>";

   $Ping_or_Fetch = $cgi->url_param('pick');

 
  my $number = $cgi->url_param('Number');
   my $URI      = $cgi->url_param('URL');
   my $Email  = $cgi->url_param('Email');
   my $from   = "abc\@gmail.com";
   my $count  = 0;
   my $date   = localtime();
   my $logfilelocation = "/Users/Appy/Desktop/";
   
   if ($number eq "" || $Email eq "" || $URI eq "" )
   {
   print "Please enter all the values";
   }

   else
   {
   print "Thank You";
   print "<br>";
   print "<br>";
   if ($Ping_or_Fetch eq 'Ping')
   {
                 &myping($URI,$URL);
                 sub myping
                 {

                     my $newURI = $_[0];
                 my $newURL = $_[1];
                 my $alive = ping(host => "$newURI", timeout => 15);

                 if ($alive)
                  {
                      print "$newURI is active.\n";
                      $count = 0;
                  }

                  else
                  {    
                      print "$newURI is inactive\n";
                      print "<br>";

                      if ($count<$number)
                      {
                          $count = $count + 1;
                          &myping;
                      }

                      else
                      {
                      print "<br> $date";
                      my $logfile = $logfilelocation . "log.txt";

                      my $logmsg = "$date cannot ping $newURI";

open LOGFILE, ">>$logfile" or die "cannot open logfile $logfile for ap
+pend: $!";

                  print LOGFILE $logmsg, "\n";
                    close LOGFILE;
                        
                    my $email = Email::MIME->create(
                            
                    header         => [
                                         From    => $from,
                                         To         => $Email,
                                         Subject => $logmsg,
                                      ],
                  attributes =>  {
                                   filename         =>"log.txt",
                                   content_type  =>"application/text",
                                   disposition     =>"attachment",
                                   Name  =>"/Users/Appy/Sites/log.txt"
+,
                                  },
                                         
                         body => "$newURI is not working" );
 
                        my $sender = Email::Send->new(

                                         {   

                                               mailer      => 'Gmail',

                       mailer_args => [
                                         username => 'abc@gmail.com',
                                         password => '1234qwerty',
                                            ]
                                         }
                                                         );
                       eval { $sender->send($email) };
                       die "Error sending email: $@" if $@
                      }
                  
                  }
              
              
              
              }
   }
 
   }
  }

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Please tell me Why is the code unable to update the log file ?

Kindly Help. Thanx in Advance .

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