[rt-devel] cgi error from support.pm

[Jesse]

There's a typo in what's in CVS. you should be running 1.0.7, not 
the random code-of-the-day from CVS.


On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:08:38PM -0700, Michael A. Walter wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> Today I found a bug in support.pm - or at least my Linux system was not
> happy with it.  :)
> 
> I installed the tar.gz file and rt ran great, then I got a checkout of
> the cvs tree (v. 1.0.7) and ran into a problem.
> 
> #
> # The problem is that neither of the cgi exe's work.  When executing
> # them from the command line, I get the following output
> #
> [waltermi at nyrangers cgi]$ webrt.cgi
> Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at
> /opt/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support
> .pm line 59, near ">"
> syntax error at /opt/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm line 59, near ">"
> syntax error at /opt/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm line 59, near
> "'&')"
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
> /opt/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/suppor
> t.pm line 151.
> Compilation failed in require at /opt/rt/bin/rtmux.pl line 49.
> [waltermi at nyrangers cgi]$
> #
> # When I try to get to them via the web, I get the following errors in
> # the error_log
> #
> [waltermi at nyrangers cgi]$ tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/rt/bin/rtmux.pl line 56.
> [Tue Mar 20 16:30:11 2001] [error] [client 9.9.9.9] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/rt/bin/cgi/admin-webrt.cgi
> [Tue Mar 20 16:34:36 2001] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> [Tue Mar 20 16:34:38 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)  (Red
> Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.6.6 OpenSSL/0.9.5a mod_perl/1.24 configured --
> resuming normal operations
> Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at
> /usr/local/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm line 59, near ">"
> syntax error at /usr/local/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm line 59, near
> ">"
> syntax error at /usr/local/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm line 59, near
> "'&')"
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
> /usr/local/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm line 151.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/rt/bin/rtmux.pl line 49.
> [Tue Mar 20 16:35:45 2001] [error] [client 9.9.9.9] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/rt/bin/cgi/webrt.cgi
> [waltermi at nyrangers cgi]$
> #
> # Unfortunately, I have not really debugged the problem, but here is
> # what I know: I did a cvs log on support.pm and found
> #
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.27
> date: 2001/02/11 23:40:21;  author: jesse;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -3
> imported brandon's url importing code
> ----------------------------
> #
> # It looks like the tar.gz file for download is using the 1.26 version
> # of support.pm so when I replaced the 1.27 version with the one from
> # the tar.gz file, everything seemed to work.
> #
> # Here are the differences.
> #
> [waltermi at nyrangers web]$ cvs diff -r 1.26 support.pm
> Index: support.pm
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /raid/cvsroot/rt/lib/rt/ui/web/support.pm,v
> retrieving revision 1.26
> diff -r1.26 support.pm
> 59,61c59,64
> <     $value =~ s/</&lt;/g;
> <     $value =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
> <     print "$value";
> ---
> >     my %map = ('&lt;' =&gt; '&amp;lt;', '&gt;' =&gt; '&amp;gt;',
> >     '&amp;' =&gt; '&amp;amp;');
> >     $value =~ s/([&lt;&gt;\&amp;])/$map{$1}/ge;
> >     $value =~ s!(?:^|\b)
> >         ((?:https?|ftp|mailto)://[^\s\&quot;\'/]+/[^\s():\&quot;\']+)
> >        !&lt;A HREF=\&quot;$1\&quot;&gt;$1&lt;/A&gt;!gx;
> >     print $value;
> [waltermi at nyrangers web]$
> 
> Looks like the importing url code is causing problems.  If it helps, I'm
> running RH 6.2, and Apache 1.3.2.
> 
> Let me know if you need any more info,
> 
> mw
> waltermi at austin.ibm.com
> 
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