Hi fellow Monks,

In finally fixing this problem regarding hanging scripts that have references, I determined exactly what the problem was. Basically, it has to do with warnings. If I have warnings turned off, the script doesn't hang. The problem is that perl is trying to warn me about using an undefined variable in a particular expression - (the one that I had determined was the problem). The strange thing is that the warning never makes it into the error log, and the script just simply hangs.

Has anyone else seen this sort of behavior before? This seems to happen with Apache 2.0, and not 1.3 (I'm using mod_cgi, in these situations). I like to use warnings, it helps me debug, but I've pretty much had to turn them off.

Thanks!

Michelle

In reply to Odd behavior: CGI and warnings by michellem

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