Try loading this page a few times and see if you don't get
a box asking you to download:
http://everything.blockstackers.com/everything.pl?lastnode=jwz&node=about%3Ajwz
This is different though because you download html instead of
actual perl like mine is doing, but I think it's the same
type of thing. | [reply] |
Try loading this page a few times and see if you don't get
a box asking you to download:
http://everything.blockstackers.com/everything.pl?lastnode=jwz&node=about%3Ajwz
This is different though because you download html instead of
actual perl like mine is doing, but I think it's the same
type of thing. | [reply] |
That URL you supplied works for me -- no box, no download, and I have a miniature test lab, Windows only :-(, at my disposal. Sounds like it might be something unique to your setup after all.
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Are you trying to run it on a unix server?
check file permissions are set to 755 | [reply] |
I don't know why this would happen "on and off," but
this is most likely due to bad server configs. Your web
server needs to associate a certain file extension (.pl,
perhaps) w/ being a Perl script so that it knows to
execute it and not just shove the contents of the script
back to the browser. So it's not your browser--it's the
web server. | [reply] |
Here's something that definitely triggers the kind of event you are talking about, especially when using Internet Explorer 5.0: forgetting to print out the MIME/HTML header.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
What you described just happened to me (I downloaded the output of my script as a file and saved it to my so-called \Desktop) because my MIME/HTML header printing subroutine is foobar'ed for some reason. Hopefully, I will be able to fix it.
Otherwise, I will cry.
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[d/l] |
as was said above, it is almost certainly a server misconfiguration.
the server needs to know what to do with the thing you're
requesting (execute it or show it). if your web server isn't
setup correctly, it will not execute the perl script, and
will assume it to be "just another text file", thus returning
the code of the perl script. since you're on a windows box,
try mucking around in the "file associations" config screen,
since the problem you're having is probably that the file
extension of your scripts is not setup as a "Perl Script that
should be executed" in the server.
--- if all you need is a server to do static HTML/CGI stuff
for testing purposes only, i recomend Sambar (http://www.sambar.com/).
it's free, supports CGI, and is incredibly easy to setup/use. | [reply] |