Hi, I'm probably in over my head but I am honestly trying to learn perl with this project. Anyhow, I'm pretty much a complete neophyte and I'm trying to run a script called apply.cgi which I inherited from someone else.

It starts with the following lines: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -s
BEGIN { unshift @INC,".","./Net"; }
use Socket;
use Net::SSLeay qw(get_https make_form post_https);
$Net::SSLeay::ssl_version = 3;

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Now when I comment them out, the script at least runs, but it certainly doesn't run correctly. I take it these lines have something to do with SSL? is there something immediately, obviously, inherently wrong with whats there or is it fine-and the problem lies somewhere else in the script?

I can be reached via ICQ too! 11578852. Cheers! And thanks to anyone who even bothers to look at this post.

Edit 2001-04-11 by tye

In reply to Internal Server Error! by Anonymous Monk

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