Hi,

Has anyone here had any experience with Perl and Apache2 not working as expected?

The problem I am talking about is when and undefined variable is used, the apache server sits there for ages before eventually returning a timeout.

# Example code
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $blah = 0;
# have not defined $result
if ($blah == 1) { $result == "true" }
if ($result eq "true") { print "True" }
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Code like this will work if called from the command line but not through the apache2 server.

Now I know you are going to say "Define your variables / use strict..." but this is old code that is in the process of being rewritten and it is not worth the hassle of going through the old stuff and fixing it up.

The code used to work with Apache 1.3.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,
Reagen

Update: Actually "use strict" doesnt even kill the script. It still sits there doing something for ever... nothing in the error logs either.

Update 2: Trying to narrow down this prob and it seems that you can "use strict" and declare a variable but if that variable is used later in a context where its value is nothing, the server will do its timeout thing. Setting the value of that var to "" makes it work.