Re: Need help with a simple (I think) Perl script

On Fri, 30 May 2008 01:16:39 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

If you develop a Perl program in a CGI
environment, you'd better make it a habit to

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

It will make the browser display more meaningful error messages.

That may not always be a good habit, since the error messages are meaningful
only to the programmer:

http://schwern.org/~schwern/cgi-bin/unix2vms/

One can look for the messages produced by "die" in the error log too, and if
the code is in use by people other than the CGI programmers (which it probably
will be) it's probably a better bet to not use the above outside of testing,
since it will produce something meaningless and confusing.


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