Error: Illegal or empty (text)

[scott at ruralnetwork.net]

Yes, that does work!  (That is, adding "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off" to 
the httpd.conf file, which I put right after the "PerlSetVar Global 
/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/" statement; and then putting 
/usr/local/etc/freeside/asp-global/global.asa back the way it was before 
with:
 $cgi = new CGI; 

instead of the  workaround I tried of:
 $cgi = new CGI(\*STDIN); 

Similarly, the original Apache::ASP cgi.htm example also works when using 
the "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off" directive. 

Thanks Ivan! 

I'll pass this on to the mod-perl list, as well. 

 --
Scott Langley
scott at ruralnetwork.net
Systems Administrator
Rural Network Services 

ivan writes: 

> Does setting "PerlSetVar RequestBinaryRead Off" (available in
> Apache::ASP 2.55 and later) fix this problem for you? 
> 
> -- 
> _ivan 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:57:22PM +0000, scott at ruralnetwork.net wrote:
>> Below is an update on what I found out on the interaction between Freeside, 
>> CGI.pm >= 3.00 and Apache::ASP.  For now, I would suggest using HTML::Mason 
>> install of Apache::ASP with Freeside 1.4.1.  
>> 
>> --
>> Scott Langley
>> scott at ruralnetwork.net
>> Systems Administrator
>> Rural Network Services  
>> 
>> ----------Forwarded message ----------
>> From: scott at ruralnetwork.net
>> To: Josh Chamas <josh at chamas.com>
>> Subject: Re: Apache::ASP grabbing STDIN
>> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:59:14 GMT  
>> 
>> Josh Chamas writes:  
>> 
>> >I did this hack for Apache::ASP so that people could more easily port
>> >CGI script by just wrapping <% %> around them.  Since Apache::ASP calls
>> >read() and consumes the input, I don't see how I could get it to work
>> >with Apache::Request, but I am not sure it is something developer.   
>> >
>> >One work around for those having problems with CGI might be to use
>> >this API instead:   
>> >
>> >   $query = new CGI(\*STDIN);   
>> >
>> >Scott, does this work for your situation?  Can you get the Apache::ASP
>> >examples to work with this change on your installation?   
>> >
>> >Regards,   
>> >
>> >Josh
>> >________________________________________________________________________
>> >Josh Chamas, Founder    | NodeWorks - http://www.nodeworks.com
>> >Chamas Enterprises Inc. | NodeWorks Directory - http://dir.nodeworks.com
>> >http://www.chamas.com   | Apache::ASP - http://www.apache-asp.org   
>> > 
>> 
>> When I try what you suggested in the Apache::ASP cgi.htm example, I get
>> a runaway httpd process that consumes around 90% of the CPU and no ouput 
>> returned to the browser.  The last lines that appears in the Apache error 
>> log are:  
>> 
>> [error] [asp] [3813] [debug] [1079816560.7241;0.0015] [cgi.htm] - 
>> Script_OnStart /var/www/asp/eg/cgi.htm in global.asa
>> [error] [asp] [3813] [debug] [1079816560.7247;0.0006] executing 
>> CODE(0x85d92e8)  
>> 
>> This example uses CGI this way:
>> use CGI qw(:standard);  
>> 
>> When I try what you suggested in the real Apache::ASP application that I 
>> want to work, the ISP customer management software package Freeside,
>> http://www.sisd.com/freeside/, I get:  
>> 
>> [error] [asp] [2098] [error] Can't locate object method "READLINE" via 
>> package "Apache::ASP::Request" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CGI.pm line 510. 
>> <--> , /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Apache/ASP.pm line 1518  
>> 
>> This code uses CGI this way:
>> use CGI;  
>> 
>> where:
>> $query = new CGI(\*STDIN);  
>> 
>> is called in the Script_OnStart method of the application's global.asa file.
>> Both of these tests were done with Apache::ASP 2.57 and CGI 3.04.  
>> 
>> Do you have any other suggetsions?  
>> 
>> --
>> Scott Langley
>> scott at ruralnetwork.net
>> Systems Administrator
>> Rural Network Services 
> 
> -- 
> _ivan