orlando_5 — Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:53:00 +0000

Is your website in a Cobalt server? Cobalt server is known to have problems with CGI scritps due to CGI Wapper. That might be the problem. Check with the server admin.

I do not think the script is the problem...

Orpheus — Wed, 15 Mar 2000 02:41:00 +0000

you could just stop using CGI.pl

Gage — Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:18:00 +0000

A prophet? Yup, netscape it is.

Actually LWP is working fine. I know that only because i use it on other scripts. How would i be able to find out what version of cgi.pm i have?
Also, if i use mirror instead of get, i actually get the output i want, but i'll pretty much go crazy if i don't find out why this script doesn't work as it is.

Orpheus — Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:06:00 +0000

Your using netscape aren't you

That just means that the document on the server is sending back no data. Which means one of two things.

1) LWP isn't pulling the page
2) Something is wrong with CGI.pm and it isn't generating the HTML correctly.

Gage — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:31:00 +0000

First off thanx for the help. I still haven't been able to figure this thing out. It's been driving me nuts. For simplicity and to try and figure out why the script isn't working i resulted to this:

code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser;

$cgiobject=new CGI;
print $cgiobject->header;

$page = get("http://www.yahoo.com/");

$p=HTML::TokeParser->new(\$page);

if ($p->get_tag("title")) {
      my $title = $p->get_trimmed_text;
      print "Title: $title\n";
}

while (my $token = $p->get_tag("a")) {
my $url = $token->[1]{href} | | "-";
my $text = $p->get_trimmed_text("/a");
print "$url\t$text";
print "<br>";
}

print $cgiobject->end_html;
[/code]

For some reason this returns "document contained no data". Anyone?

Orpheus — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:57:00 +0000

I think the problem may be with CGI.pm

maybe your server is running an old version or it or LWP. LWP however rarely gets updated and it comes packaged with perl.

If CGI.pm isn't working right it may return invalid headers...

Gage — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:49:00 +0000

Did you guys install the script on your own servers? Cause it works fine on wdvl but i can't get it to return anything on mine.

Justin S — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:43:00 +0000

Wow- thats a cool script. I found the problem: you have to type the full URL for it to work. So "http://www.fireburn.com" would work but "fireburn.com" wouldn't.

* edit: darn orlando, you posted a minute before me *

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[This message has been edited by Justin Stayton (edited 14 March 2000).]

orlando_5 — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:42:00 +0000

I think the problem is how you enter the URL. You must enter the URL as: http://www.dqn.org/ instead of dqn.org. It work fine for me when I inserted the http:// in the URL.

Gage — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:55:00 +0000

I forgot to give a working example of this script so here goes: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/cgi-bin/parsepage.cgi