cgi form fail to write to the *.txt file?

cgi form fail to write to the *.txt file?

I use the following cgi script file to write the date to the *.txt file, but I fail, how come?

the cgi is as following:

#!/bnr/projects/pegasus/perl5

#Change this path!

$COMMENT_FILE = "/hct_university/she/registrationDir/rs1.txt";

# The associative array $values will contain the data.

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html>\n";
print "<head>\n";

# Make sure it's a POST-method form submission
if (! &VerifyForm()) {
      print "<title>Not a POST Form Submission</title>\n";
      print "</head>\n";
      print "<h1>Not a POST Form Submission</h1>\n";
      print "This page should be accessed only by submitting\n";
      print "a form using the POST method. Perhaps your\n";
      print "browser does not support forms.\n";
      print "</body></html>\n";
      exit 0;
}

#OK, it's a form submission, so parse it.
&ParseForm();

#Use the information

#OK, we have all the data. Write it to a file in which
#we collect comments from users. Open to append, of course.

$fname = ">>" . $COMMENT_FILE;
open(OUT, $fname);

#The format I write here just happens to be appropriate for
#reading with a typical Unix mail reader; for instance,
#mail -f comments.txt should open the file.
#No subject lines, though.
print OUT "sir this is the testing";
#print OUT "Name: ", $FORM{'Name'},"\n";
#print OUT "Name: ", $values{'name'},"\n";
#print OUT "job title: ", $values{"job_title"},"\n";
#print OUT "Employee #: ", $values{"employee"},"\n";
#print OUT "LOB: ", $values{"lob"},"\n";
#print OUT "Dept #: ", $values{"dept_loc"},"\n";
#print OUT "Project Number : ", $values{"project_num"},"\n";
#print OUT " ESN Number: ", $values{"phone"},"\n";
#print OUT "Course Title: ", $values{"course_title"},"\n";
#print OUT "Course Number #: ", $values{"course_num"},"\n";
close(OUT);

print "<title>Thank you, ", $values{"name"}, "</title>\n";
print "</head>\n";
print "<h1>Thank you, ", $values{"name"}, "</h1>\n";
print "Thank you for your comments.\n";
print "</body></html>\n";
exit 0;

sub VerifyForm
{
      local($bad, $contentType, $requestMethod, $result);
      $bad = 0;
      # Check the content type of the data we've received
      $contentType = $ENV{"CONTENT_TYPE"};
      if ($contentType ne "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") {
            $bad = 1;
      }
      # And make sure the POST method was used
      $requestMethod = $ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"};
      if ($requestMethod ne "POST") {
            $bad = 1;
      }

      $result = ! $bad;
}

sub ParseForm
{
      local($fields, $name, $value, $data);
      #Split standard input into fields

      read(STDIN, $data, $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"});
      @fields = split(/&/, $data);

      #Split the fields into names and values, creating
      #an associative array indexed by the names

      foreach $item (@fields) {
            ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $item);
            $name = &UnescapeString($name);
            $value = &UnescapeString($value);
            $values{$name} = $value;
      }
}

#Unescape any special characters in a string

sub UnescapeString
{
local($s) = $_[0];
      local($pos, $ascii);
      # Replace the + sign with spaces
      $s =~ s/\+/ /g;
      # Seek out and replace %xx hexadecimal escapes
      $pos = 0;
      while (($pos = index($s, "%", $pos)) != -1) {
            $ascii = hex(substr($s, $pos + 1, 2));
            substr($s, $pos, 3) = pack("c", $ascii);
      }
      $s;
}

syu1

Asked: 2000-02-16

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guadalupeCommented: 2000-02-16

Try adding these lines:

open(OUT, $fname);
print "Open message: $!\n";

Tis will give you the system message after opening the file and will let you know if there was an error. It is a good idea to do somethink like this

open(OUT, $fname) || die "Failed to open $fname";

syu1Author Commented: 2000-02-16

it seems the file can not be opened, it is there, and the path seems ok, I just dont know what is wrong the *txt file?

thanks!

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guadalupeCommented: 2000-02-16

Did you try the solution I sent:

open(OUT, $fname);
print "Open message: $!\n";

What message did it print?

syu1Author Commented: 2000-02-16

I try it, I got error message like : "no such file or directory found",

thanks lot!

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guadalupeCommented: 2000-02-17

OK so we know the problem is that some where the directory doesn't exist. Notice I didn't say the file as perl create non existing files if you call then for write or append access. But in this case it could create it because it was referenced to a dir which did't exist.

syu1Author Commented: 2000-02-17

quadalupe:

would you pls explan it again, as I dont quite follow your last explanation, thanks!

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guadalupeCommented: 2000-02-18

Ok the error message was that:

"no such file or directory found"

You opened the file like this:

$COMMENT_FILE = "/hct_university/she/registrationDir/rs1.txt";

$fname = ">>" . $COMMENT_FILE;

open(OUT, $fname);

the ">>" which you append onto the front of the file name means open the file for appending. When perl is instructed to open a file for either writing or appending and it does not find the file it will create the FILE!! Not any directories which may be part of thepath of the file but just the file. But if the path doesn't exists it will be unable to create ther file and therefore unable to open it... Therefore if it says the file or diectory doesn't exist it is much more lickly the problem is the dir. Also if it was a lck of permissions to creat the file in the dir iot would say just that:

Permission denied

Check the spelling and location of the dir...

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