Re: CGI::Carp fatalsToFile

[tangent]

You could try putting this at the top of the script:

use CGI::Carp qw(set_die_handler);
BEGIN {
    sub handle_errors {
        my $msg = shift;
        print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
        print "$msg";
    }
    set_die_handler(\&handle_errors);
}

This will change the server's response code from 500 to 200 and would give you content like:

[Wed Oct  5 23:53:36 2021] test.cgi: Died at /web/test.cgi line 15.

However, the fact that the script you are calling with LWP::Simple does not appear in the logs would suggest that it is not actually being called.

I would not discount the role of user-agent - non-standard user-agents can be blocked to prevent web scraping. Maybe something at the server level was updated or reconfigured by your hosting company? To test you will need to use LWP::UserAgent directly.

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0'); # play with this string

my $response = $ua->get('http://localhost/web/test.cgi');
if ($response->is_success) {
    print $response->decoded_content;
}
else {
    print $response->status_line;
}

[Bod]

Thanks for the very helpful reply

You could try putting this at the top of the script:

use CGI::Carp qw(set_die_handler);
BEGIN {
    sub handle_errors {
        my $msg = shift;
        print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
        print "$msg";
    }
    set_die_handler(\&handle_errors);
}

I'm going to write some test code so that I can properly test what is going on. It will probably have to wait until the weekend though. But this code has been a little confused!

Is set_die_handler a method of CGI::Carp and set_die_handler(\&handle_errors); in the BEGIN block is overriding it?
Or is something different happening here?

[tangent]

Is set_die_handler a method of CGI::Carp and set_die_handler(\&handle_errors); in the BEGIN block is overriding it?

set_die_handler is a method of CGI::Carp, but its purpose is to allow you to specify your own function to be executed "any time a script calls "die", has a syntax error, or dies unexpectedly at runtime". See the docs for more.