question on security

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:01:46AM -0800, Chris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found that I cannot make my perl script work: it uses LWP or
> simpleget.pl to retrieve a web page, then process on the data
> retrieved. This script can work fine in command line, but if I run
> it as a CGI script, no data can be retrieved.
> 
> I guess that there is some kind of restrictions on this in the
> security machanism, but I am not sure. Could anyone shed some light
> on this for me?

Have you checked your web server's logs? I suspect a lack of
permission to write to the directory where you want to put the
files. You didn't indicate your server. Apache runs as apache:apache,
and tomcat as tomcat:tomcat.

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