Re: [Mason] CGIHandler and global variables

[David Dyer-B. <dd...@dd...>]

Alex Bowley <al...@hy...> writes:

> I recently had to transfer some code over from mod_perl to using CGI.
> Previously I had a global hash (%Page) defined in the handler script,
> using use lib in the HTML::Mason::Commmands block, which worked fine.
> Now, according to all of the documentation I've read, passing
>      allow_globals => [qw( %page )]
> to the CGIHandler constructor should suffice. Yet with or without this
> line, every page that tries to use %Page generates a system error,
> e.g.
> 
> Global symbol "%Page" requires explicit package name at (eval 25) line
> 35.
> 
> Any ideas what could be causing the problem?

It's probably not this easy, but in the examples you give, the casing
is inconsistent; you've capitalized the "P" in "page" everywhere
*except* in allow_globals.  So of course they won't match up.
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