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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 16:10:31 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Win32 CGIs don't work
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Paul Sutton wrote:
> 
> There have been a bunch of reports that CGIs don't work on Win32. This is
> correct. It affects any CGI started with a #! line such as
> 
>   #!c:/bin/perl
> 
> It used to work in 1.3b3. The cause is this patch. It adds a trailing '.'
> onto the interpreter filename, so that Apache tries to spawn c:\bin\perl.
> instead of c:\bin\perl, which fails.
> 
> I think this patch should be reversed, pending a better fix for PR#1712.
> At the moment we are killing everyone that's using #! style CGIs (i.e.
> lots of people).

+1. Better reopen 1712 and add a note at the same time!

Cheers,

Ben.

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