I've spent a few weeks trying to research through Google to find others having this issue, but with no success. A few Apache-savvy folks have recommended I do something with handlers that was way over my head to figure out what's going on here, so please be gentle with me - I may know how to configure a few virtual hosts and an SSL server, but I'm not an Apache guru by any stretch. Basically what's happening is I have a small horde of Perl (not mod_perl, just plain Perl) scripts which use the CGI.pm module to parse out incoming CGI parameters and cookies, and about 2% of the time when I get the POST data params from CGI they are a completely empty collection. I can consistently reproduce this with a simple POST form page to a simple Perl CGI script which dumps a set of static form data (as in the form fields are hidden and therefore no data entry is needed so I can just hit the submit button over and over again for rapid testing) to the browser. Everything runs fine, no errors on the server being reported, no error in the Perl script reported, just a blank params collection about 2% of the time, seemingly completely at random. Under high load and under low load there seems to be no difference. This started happening about a year ago when I updated my Ubuntu packages to the latest stable packages, and I'm currently running Apache version 2.2.8 Ubuntu Stable with Perl version 5.8.8 and CGI.pm version 3.15 - I'm not sure what other information or version numbers might be useful to folks. I would have reported this as an Apache bug, but they told me to come here and ask for advice from the user group on how to tap into handlers and do an Apache-side debug about this before proceeding to file it as a bug. Also, I'm sure a ton of you folks will recommend converting everything to mod_perl2 and that's a very noble intention, but I simply don't have the time to convert some 200+ scripts and deal with the headache of making sure they're all working smoothly on a new framework like that - not right now anyway. Maybe when I win the lottery or my boss realizes that refactoring is a Good Thing (tm) worth devoting man-hours on! Any advice or direction in figuring this out would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! - Tim Partee --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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