[thelist] Re: CGI Help as a <tip>

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Tue Jun 18 03:32:01 CDT 2002


This is too good not to capture as tips

On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 12:27  am, Means, Eric D wrote:

<tip author="eric.d.means at boeing.com" type="CGI">
Add the line

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser'

to the top (though *after* the #!/usr/bin/perl line) of Perl CGI scripts.
This will catch any errors and display them in friendly fashion to the
browser instead of just spitting out a generic "500 Server Error"
message.
</tip>

<tip author="kalos at carolina.rr.com" type="CGI">
[It's] always helpful to "use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';" (minus the
double
quotes).

It will spit out a far more friendly error than trolling through the
error log will.
</tip>

<tip author="kalos at carolina.rr.com" type="CGI">
CGI-Carp is a perl module available from CPAN and will help greatly when
debugging your scripts.

As you get deeper into using perl you'll find that modules are a life
saver
for many things (as they save a great deal of time).
</tip>

Cheers
Martin
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