Ken,

The difference is when you run through command script you are executing 
the file as /"owner"/ and as "/Other/" when you access it through the 
browser. Looking at the error message you sent, I believe it might not 
be executing the complete script. Try setting permissions as 707 or 777 
to start with. You may have to create a temporary directory to test with.

Let me know if you have any questions,

Vishwam
Vishwam Annam
Wright State University Libraries
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Ken Irwin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm moving to a new web server and struggling to get it configured properly. The problem of the moment: having a Perl CGI script call another web page in the background and make decisions based on its content. On the old server I used an antique Perl script called "hcat" (from the Pelican book<http://oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch04.html>); I've also tried curl and LWP::Simple.
>
> In all three cases, I get the same behavior: it works just fine on the command line, but when called by the web server through a CGI script, the LWP (or other socket connection) gets no results. It sounds like a permissions thing, but I don't know what kind of permissions setting to tinker with. In the test script below, my command line outputs:
>
> Content-type: text/plain
> Getting URL: http://www.npr.org
> 885 lines
>
> Whereas the web output just says "Getting URL: http://www.npr.org" - and doesn't even get to the "Couldn't get" error message.
>
> Any clue how I can make use of a web page's contents from w/in a CGI script? (The actual application has to do with exporting data from our catalog, but I need to work out the basic mechanism first.)
>
> Here's the script I'm using.
>
> #!/bin/perl
> use LWP::Simple;
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
> my $url = "http://www.npr.org";
> print "Getting URL: $url\n";
> my $content = get $url;
> die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;
> @lines = split (/\n/, $content);
> foreach (@lines) { $i++; }
> print "\n\n$i lines\n\n";
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Ken
>