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# 36  
Old 05-21-2008
era,
This is what I wrote

client side
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
use IO::Socket;

if (@ARGV < 1) { print "usage: perl send_to_server.pl [host]\n"; exit; }
$host = $ARGV[0];

$var = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr=>"$host",
                              PeerPort=>"80",
                              Proto=>"tcp") || die " $! Connection failed.";

print $var "GET server_code.pl?data=abc HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";


Server side

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
open (FL,"/tmp/garric");
print FL "abcdefgh";
close (FL);

Then I run the client code like this
#>./client_code.pl <web server>

This should create a file on the webserver running apache, right? But it doesnt seem to be doing it. Can you see why?

Regards,
garric
# 37  
Old 05-21-2008
You are opening a file for reading, not writing; and not checking the exit code. You want open (FL, ">/tmp/garric") or die "Anguish: $!";

Before I noticed that, I wrote the following. I'm leaving it just in case it might come in useful ...

How are you invoking the server-side script? You have it in (your moral equivalent of) /var/www/cgi-bin/server_code.pl and it's marked executable? You have Perl available on the box? No chroot or other trickery?

You don't really need to use CGI in the client script if you intend to keep it that simple.
# 38  
Old 05-21-2008
Oh, and another quick tip: run the server-side thingy from the command line before you try to run it from within the server context. Nothing beats finding a syntax error only after several hours of figuring out what "500 Internal Server Error" really means ...
# 39  
Old 05-21-2008
The reason I did not write a "die " on fail is because this is going to run on the web server and since I am running the client code on another machine, I wont be able to see the standard output there (or std err)

Yes, the server code does have executable permissions.
# 40  
Old 05-21-2008
How do I exactly go about doing that? I mean checking the server code on the command line.
# 41  
Old 05-21-2008
Code:
perl ./server_code.pl

If it becomes more elaborate, you will need to create some scaffolding to run it from the command line, but it usually pays itself back pretty quickly.

Once it's in production use, if it throws any errors, they will be visible in Apache's error log (if you are lucky).
# 42  
Old 05-21-2008
Oh, this is what you meant. I tried this and this works. The simple server code works. The problem is invoking the server code from the client code. That seems to be the point where it is failing.
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