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In article <x7vgy8fd3v.fsf@indy1.watching.org>, jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk 
says...
> Pak Chan <Pak.Chan@metameme.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > I've contacted Demon commercial tech support, but they have absolutely no 
> > idea (clue?) as to why it fails to work. The only thing that they can 
> > think of is that I'm loading the CGI library module in my scripts 
> > (perfectly understandable, given that they are CGI scripts!). They have 
> 
> 'Internal server' errors generally mean that something is being output
> at an inappropriate moment - mixing up errors with where the HTTP
> headers are supposed to be.
> 
> You could try, before any of the 'use' statements, something like
> 
> 	BEGIN {
> 		$| = 1;
> 		print "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";
> 	}
> 
> in an effort to print a valid content-type header before anything else
> fails to initialise correctly and prints out error messages.
> 
> Or, look for information on the 'xx-' debugging feature on Demon's
> servers.  (I don't know if it's mentioned in the documentation -
> anyone?)

Thanks. I've just tried the xx- feature, and it's quite illuminating:

parse error in file /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl at line 22, 
next 2 tokens "use CGI"
parse error in file /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl at line 30, 
next 2 tokens "new CGI"
parse error in file /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl at line 34, 
next 2 tokens "->"
parse error in file /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl at line 36, 
next 2 tokens "->"
parse error in file /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl at line 38, 
next 2 tokens "->"
parse error in file /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl at line 54, 
next 2 tokens "->"
Execution of /www/cgi-bin/www.lawsoncars.com/xx-sm.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

I was given the impression that Demon ran Perl 5 on their servers. Is 
this not the case? Anyone from Demon Internet care to confirm this?