Re: CGI Error - on IIS5, Perl version 5.8.0

[Jamie Le Tual]

If you really want taint checking, you have to do it at a higher level, 
unfortunately. The thing is, in your situation, it would seem  that 
windows is constructing and intializing a perl interpreter _before_ it 
executes your script. It is at the moment of initialization that the 
taint flag must be set. You could try the following: Open up your 
Internet Information Services settings panel, right click on your web 
server, and select properties. Click on the 'Home Directory' tab, then 
the 'Configuration' button. You should now see a scrolling listbox with 
file extension mappings. Scrolling down to .pl you will see something like
.pl   C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "%s" %s

This is where I would try adding the -T switch:

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T "%s" %s

The down side is that you will enforce taint checking on all scripts. 
You might want to add a new extension .plt, which would use the perl.exe 
with the taint flag, its up to you how you want to work.

Hope this helps
Peace,
Jamie
Nancy Wickstrom wrote:

Hi,
 
I'm a Perl and CGI newbie trying to get a successful Perl installation 
on my IIS so that I can start to learn the stuff!  When I try to test 
the server with a Perl script (see below), I get the following message:
 
"The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete 
set of HTTP headers.  The headers it did return are:
Too late for "-T" option at c:\inetpub\scripts\perltest.pl line 1."
 
I installed my IIS server and tested it successfully with a simple 
html file that I stored in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\.   And I successfully 
tested my perl script's syntax from the command line.  I stored my 
test script in the C:\Inetpub\Scripts\ directory.  The script is 
below.  Can anyone tell me what could be happening to cause the CGI 
error message?  Thank you so much!
 
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -wT
 
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "This is testing a perl script on my server.";
 
 
Nancy Wickstrom




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