Have you tried running this script as a normal cgi with using mod_perl?
I would suggest doing that first before hacking away at mod_perl's
configuration.
Perhaps it is just an error in your CGI.
Sincerely,
Craig Vincent
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Subject: disrupted headers
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use mod_perl to get persistant database connections in a
perl
> CGI script. I'm experiencing a problem with an extraneous:
> Connection: close
> line between my http info and my html info.
>
> If you can help, a tarball with details (possibly more than you'll ever
> want to know!) is available.
>
> In brief, I'm running Red Hat 6.0 with Apache 1.3.6, mod_perl 1.21, MySql
> 3.22.27, DBI 1.13 and Apache::DBI 0.87.
>
> My program is designed to assist my friends in maintaining their own
> web-site. HTML page information is stored in a database, where new pages
> can be added, and existing pages can be modified.
>
> The program solicits username and password, does an initial connect, then
> redirects itself to self_url, with action=Select Page (and with
> username/password info). Function select_page is called, based on the
> action. It does another connect (hopefully, with the assistance of
> Apache::DBI, simply returning a hashed value). Then selects the name and
> description of stored pages into a list for use in a scrolled_list
control.
>
> All this happens fine, except that the extraneous Connection: close line
> crops up in the middle of the returned HTML, which throws the browser for
a
> loop: it cannot display the page/form as desired, simply displays the
> entire text of the page (control info included), with the extraneous line
> intruding.
>
> In contrast, when I invoke the script from command line, the extraneous
> line is not included.
>
> I could easily spend a long time bleeding here. I have no idea what or
> where the problem could be. (Although it happens both when I have the
line:
> use Apache::DBI;
> in my mod_perl startup.pl script, and when I have the line commented out.
> Hence I suspect it could be more of a mod_perl problem than an Apache::DBI
> problem.)
>
> Any and all help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike Harrison
>
