The problem is most likely in fem.pl. Initialise all variables before use,
if you use any temporary files be sure to create a unique name. The thing
is it's entirely possible that multiple instances of the script will be
run at the same time.
quoting from a perl doc;
Or you can use the C<tmpnam> function from the POSIX module to get a
filename that you then open yourself. Use this if you do need to know
the file's name.
use Fcntl;
use POSIX qw(tmpnam);
# try new temporary filenames until we get one that didn't already
# exist; the check should be unnecessary, but you can't be too
careful
do { $name = tmpnam() }
until sysopen(FH, $name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL);
unquote
As an aside what does the SPAN tag do? I've not seen that one.
On 15 Feb 2002, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a simple HTML file like the following:
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>TEST</TITLE>
> <FORM ACTION="/fem.pl">
> <SPAN CLASS="text">Name</SPAN>
> <INPUT NAME="Name" SIZE=40>
> <BR>
> <SPAN CLASS="text">Email</SPAN>
> <INPUT NAME="email" SIZE=20>
> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="recipient" VALUE="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="redirect" VALUE="/contact/redirect.html">
> </FORM>
> </HTML>
> </HEAD>
>
> The strange problem I'm having is that the first 4 people might go to
> this form and type in their name and email address and I get the 4
> emails. However, the 5th person may put their name in and email and I'll
> get the form, but the 4th person's details will come along in the same
> email.
>
> I've tried 2 or 3 cgi scripts to process the form and got the same
> result. I've tried using qmail and sendmail and no luck so I think all
> that's left is something in Apache.
>
> Before I go and play with Apache I thought I'd ask on SLUG to see if
> anyone else had the same problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Gonzalo.
>
>
>
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