Hello everyone, this is my first post in this site, I'm having problems running pscp.exe from a cgi-script. I have seen some threads about running exes from cgi-script but I haven't found a "standard" solution for it. I have a html form where the user inputs the values, then I form a pscp command with those parameters, like always, the formed command works ok from the command prompt but not from the browser, if I left the T parameter in the script I got: "Insecure dependency in system while running with -T switch at..."; if I remove that switch the page just stays on "Waiting for localhost..." until it times out. I'm using the Apache web server, trying to copy the file to my computer, could this be a running cmd.exe issue? and if it is, how can I get around it? 
#!/perl/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;

$ENV{'PATH'} = 'C:\\Temp\\';

#Declare the variables
my $result;
my $staging_area = param('staging');
my $directory = param('directory');
my $user_id = param('userid');
my $passwd = param('passwd');
my $store = param('store');

#Attach the store directory to the diectory variable
$directory = $directory . "/" . $store;

#Set the directory where pscp.exe resides
my $pscp_dir = 'C:\\Temp\\';

#Construct the pscp command with the right arguments
my $command = $pscp_dir . "pscp.exe -batch -pw " . $passwd . " " . $us
+er_id . "@" . $staging_area . ":" . $directory . "/" . $store . "*.tg
+z " . $pscp_dir;

#Execute the command
system($command);


if ( $? == -1 )
{
  $result = "command failed: $!\n";
}

print header;
print start_html("Thank You");
print h2("Thank You");
print "$command<br>\n";
print "$result<br>\n";
print end_html;

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In reply to Running pscp from cgi-script in Windows by redrafiki

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