[ale] CGI and Earthlink hosting

Wed Mar 13 12:42:44 EST 2002

Hi,

I'm trying to create a cgi perl script on an earthlink host.  I'm
not sure if they even support CGI.pm, or if so, to what extent.
I've asked several times via email, and they don't respond to
mod_perl or CGI.pm questions.

The scripts seem to work fine on my boxes.  I only change the
directory paths for the remote scripts.  But since I don't have
access to their logs, I can't tell precisely what the errors are
on their site.  

Near as I can tell, everything *should* work fine, but it
doesn't.  Example, when I try and load my frontpage.cgi script, I
get the following in Netscale alt-u:

<TITLE>DSJ Networks</TITLE><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HASH(0x11302c)</TITLE>
<LINK REV=MADE HREF="mailto:HASH(0x113020)">
<BASE HREF="HASH(0x112f98)">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>
</HEAD><BODY>

*************  I generate this with:  *************

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT

use Carp;
use CGI qw(:standard *table );

use strict;

my $baseurl = 'http://www.dsj.net';

print header(), title("DSJ Networks"),
start_html({bgcolor=>"white"}, {text=>"#000000"},
{Link=>"#0000ff"}, {vlink=>"#551a8b"}, {alink=>"#ff0000"});

####################
## Start Main Table
####################

print table({cellpadding=>5, width=>"100%"},

Tr(

#######################
## Left Side Navigation
#######################

td({valign=>"top", width=>"20%", bgcolor=>"#dddddd"},
p( {align=>"center"},
a({href=>"http://www.dsj.net"},
img({align=>"center", src=>"$baseurl/penguin.jpg", alt=>'DSJ Net
Home'}, '')
)   # End of anchor
),  # End of paragraph
br(),

blah blah etc etc

**********************  end my script **********************

So, I ask, what's causing this problem?  Why am I getting a
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JAVASCRIPT"> forgodsake????

TIA.

-- 
David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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		-- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall"

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