[Speedycgi-users] "Cranky" SpeedyCGI(???)

[Edouard L. <lag...@ca...>]

Dear SpeedyCGI users and developers,

First, thank you to Sam Horrocks and everyone else who has gotten
SpeedyCGI up and running.  It is a great tool!!

However, ... :-) having gotten my ecard application (Penguin Greetings)
working SpeedyCGI for about 2 months now, I've run into a strange
problem.  I'm in the process of moving code into some Perl module
libraries, and strangely, SpeedyCGI is acting like a sputtering car.  The
first attempt to invoke SpeedyCGI will fail with a "Premature ending of
script headers" error for the browser and absolutely nothing in the http/
error_log besides that.  Yet, if you involve the script a second time, it
appears to run fine except that some of the initialization that should
have been done on the first invocation was never done.

I have fallen to the "last resort" strategy of using CGI::Carp and
putting warnings everywhere.  The top of my program is essentially this:

  #!/usr/bin/speedy -- -M20 -gpgreet
  use CGI::SpeedyCGI;
  use CGI qw(:standard escape);
  use CGI::Carp;
  warn "Just after CGI::Carp";

The warn statement is never printed on the first invocation, but is in
subsequent runs.

Has anyone run into a problem like this?  Any thoughts on how to debug
this sort of "crankyness?"

Thanks in advance!

Peace, Edouard :-)

P.S. Yes, the program runs fine in straight CGI.
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Edouard Lagache
Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings
http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/
pgr...@ca...