Running Perl CGI from Windows

From: Jan Eden (lists_at_jan-eden.de)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:01:22 +0100
To: Perl Lists <beginners@perl.org>

Hi all,

I hope this is not too off-topic, since I hesitate to subscribe to yet another list...

I wrote a very simple CGI script to read data from an HTML form like this:

my $q = new CGI;

my $name = $q->param('name');
my $message = $q->param('message');
my $email = $q->param('email');

Later, the script opens a pipe to sendmail and prints a message into the pipe. It works fine when I tested it on my machine (Mac OS X). So far, so good.

But accessing the script from a Windows machine gives me the prepared error message. From the log I can see that all parameter values end up in the $name variable, along with the names of the second and third parameter. So the value of $name is:

John Doe email=john@doe.com message=This is the message

Note that the first parameter's name does not appear.

I suspect the problem has to do with line endings (\r vs \n), but I cannot figure out at which point of the process line endings could matter.

Any ideas?

TIA,

Jan 

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