This seems like a strange one to me - I've been writing Perl CGI scripts with Apache 1.3 for the last 2+ years, and I've always known
    print STDERR "Some text\n";

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to go to the Apache error_log.

However, I recently(2 days ago) upgrade my machine to
  perl 5.8.0
  Apache/2.0.40

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and now I have this situation - I have a Perl CGI script that does 'print STDERR "TOP of script A\n";' at the top - this script POST's back into itself by *not* including an ACTION. The 1st time into the script, the print appears in the Apache error_log, but after the POST I *don't* see the message appear in the error_log the 2nd time. But I know it is coming back into the same script because if I remove the STDERR from that print(so that the print is then printing to STDOUT), I get the typical "bad header" message.

Anyone know what's going on here?

Any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks.

In reply to Perl CGI Apache 2.0 print STDERR not appearing in error_log by hmerrill

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