Hello monks
Recently I was trying to rewrite the sucking php mailform and replace it with cgi/perl. I got a werid error 403 when XMLHttpRequest is sending my variables. Here is some code

AJAX

var dataObj = {
    'do0' : '', // name
    'do1' : '', //email
    'do2' : '', //sunject
    'do3' : '' // text
}; 

/* create the new xmlhttp req here */

function createXMLHttpRequest() {
    
    var http = false;
    if ( window.XMLHttpRequest ) {
        try {
            http = new XMLHttpRequest();
            } catch (e) {
                http = false;
                }
            }
    else if ( window.ActiveXObject ) {
            try {
                http = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHttp");
                } catch (e) { 
                    try {
                        http = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHttp");
                    } catch (e ) { http = false; } 
            }
    }

    return http;
}

// simple testing assumes everything is ok :)
window.onload = function() {
        document.getElementById("sender").onclick = function() {
            for ( var i=0; i < 4; i++) {
                dataObj['do'+i] = document.getElementById("do"+i).valu
+e;
                //alert(dataObj['do'+i]);
                
                }
            var nr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            var sent = "cgi-bin/ex2.pl?name="+dataObj['do0']+"&email="
++dataObj['do1']+"&subject="+dataObj['do2']+"&text="+dataObj['do3'];
            nr.open('post', sent, true);
            nr.send();
    }
}

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And the CGI...

CGI

#!/opt/lampp/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

my $p = new CGI;

my ($name, $email, $sub, $txt) = (
        $p->param('name'),
        $p->param('email'),
        $p->param('subject'),
        $p->param('text'),
    );
$p->header;
print "$name\n$email\n$sub\n$txt\n";
exit(0);

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In my firebug the POST is sended but it shows me: POST http://localhost/cgi-bin/ex2.pl?name=c&email=a&subject=b&text=ff 403 Forbidden

Can you help me here? I have no idea why is this happening, I`ve chmodede my perl script with 777 and 755 no effect... I am running on arch linux XAMPP btw.

Fixed

It appears that adding this: 


<Directory "/opt/lampp/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI  # this one
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

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to httpd.conf fixes the issue

In reply to Ajax and CGI problem by heatblazer

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