Hello I am trying to write my first perl script using CGI, DBI and DBD::ODBC to connect to an Oracle database on my Windows XP pc.
I have got simple CGI scripts working on here but this is the first trying to connect to a database.

Each time it runs I get CGI Timeout in the browser and a 502 error in the IIS log.

11:41:04 127.0.0.1 GET /CGI/ah1.cgi 502

I am able to run the database connection code in a stand alone script which works fine (even returns results) and the CGI script will run if the database connection code is comented out.

My code is below and all I want at the moment is for the database connection to suceed and display a simple page telling me so

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -wT
use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI   qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp   qw/fatalsToBrowser/;

my $tainted_mpan = param( 'mpan' ) || '';
my $tainted_date = param( 'date' ) || '';
my $mpan = ''; 
my $dd=''; 
my $mm=''; 
my $yy='';

my $message = 'The MPAN you have entered is not valid. Please re-enter
+';
my $message1="Invalid MPAN";
my $message2="Invalid Date";

#check that the mpan is in the correct format 
#it may not exist but it has to be 13 numbers
if ( $tainted_mpan =~ /^(\d{13})$/ )
{
    $mpan = $1;
    #display_page($message2);
}else{
    display_page( $message1 );
    exit;
}
#check that the date format is correct DD/MM/YY
if ( $tainted_date =~ /^(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{2})/) {
    $dd=$1;
    $mm=$2;
    $yy=$3;
    search_mpan();
}else{
    display_page($message2);
    exit;
}

#routine to display any messages generated
sub display_page {
    my $message = shift;
    print
        header,
        start_html,
        p( $message ),
        end_html;
}

sub search_mpan {
    my @rows;
    my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:database.server',"username", "pas
+sword") or display_page("$DBI::errstr");
    display_page("This worked");
}

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Thanks for any help regarding this.
howarda

In reply to CGI and DBI by howarda

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