im trying to run an form-to-email script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE THESE TWO VALUES ARE SET CORRECTLY FOR YOU!
$mailprog= "/usr/sbin/sendmail" ;
$recipient= "administrator\@pung*****.com" ; # make sure to \ escape the @
# Get the CGI input variables
%in= &getcgivars ;
# Open the mailing process
open(MAIL, "|$mailprog $recipient")
|| &HTMLdie("Couldn't send the mail (couldn't run $mailprog).") ;
# Print the header information
$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} || ($ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}= "your Web site") ;
print MAIL "Subject: Form data from the Web\n\n",
"The following data was entered at $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}:\n\n" ;
# Find length of longest field name, for formatting; include space for colon
$maxlength= 0 ;
foreach (keys %in) {
$maxlength= length if length > $maxlength ;
}
$maxlength++ ;
# Print each CGI variable received by the script, one per line.
# This just prints the fields in alphabetical order. To define your own
# order, use something like
# foreach ('firstname', 'lastname', 'phone', 'address1', ... ) {
foreach (sort keys %in) {
# If a field has newlines, it's probably a block of text; indent it.
if ($in{$_}=~ /\n/) {
$in{$_}= "\n" . $in{$_} ;
$in{$_}=~ s/\n/\n /g ;
$in{$_}.= "\n" ;
}
# comma-separate multiple selections
$in{$_}=~ s/\0/, /g ;
# Print fields, aligning columns neatly
printf MAIL "%-${maxlength}s %s\n", "$_:", $in{$_} ;
}
# Close the process and mail the data
close(MAIL) ;
# Print an HTML response to the user
print <<EOF ;
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<body>
<h3>Your data has been sent.</h3>
</body>
</html>
EOF
exit ;
#-------------- start of &getcgivars() module, copied in -------------
# Read all CGI vars into an associative array.
# If multiple input fields have the same name, they are concatenated into
# one array element and delimited with the \0 character (which fails if
# the input has any \0 characters, very unlikely but conceivably possible).
# Currently only supports Content-Type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
sub getcgivars {
local($in, %in) ;
local($name, $value) ;
# First, read entire string of CGI vars into $in
if ( ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET') ||
($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'HEAD') ) {
$in= $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} ;
} elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {
if ($ENV{'CONTENT_TYPE'}=~ m#^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$#i) {
length($ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'})
|| &HTMLdie("No Content-Length sent with the POST request.") ;
read(STDIN, $in, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}) ;
} else {
&HTMLdie("Unsupported Content-Type: $ENV{'CONTENT_TYPE'}") ;
}
} else {
&HTMLdie("Script was called with unsupported REQUEST_METHOD.") ;
}
# Resolve and unencode name/value pairs into %in
foreach (split(/[&;]/, $in)) {
s/\+/ /g ;
($name, $value)= split('=', $_, 2) ;
$name=~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge ;
$value=~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge ;
$in{$name}.= "\0" if defined($in{$name}) ; # concatenate multiple vars
$in{$name}.= $value ;
}
return %in ;
}
# Die, outputting HTML error page
# If no $title, use a default title
sub HTMLdie {
local($msg,$title)= @_ ;
$title= "CGI Error" if $title eq '' ;
print <<EOF ;
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>$title</h1>
<h3>$msg</h3>
</body>
</html>
EOF
exit ;
}
#-------------- end of &getcgivars() module --------------------------
it is not working and i get the internal 500 error
i've tryed many solutions include just putting the fail safe:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "testing...\n";
. this still comes up as a 500 error.
i have named it mailer.pl and was wondering how to fix the 500 error
#!/usr/bin/perl
# IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE THESE TWO VALUES ARE SET CORRECTLY FOR YOU!
$mailprog= "/usr/sbin/sendmail" ;
$recipient= "administrator\@pung*****.com" ; # make sure to \ escape the @
# Get the CGI input variables
%in= &getcgivars ;
# Open the mailing process
open(MAIL, "|$mailprog $recipient")
|| &HTMLdie("Couldn't send the mail (couldn't run $mailprog).") ;
# Print the header information
$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} || ($ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}= "your Web site") ;
print MAIL "Subject: Form data from the Web\n\n",
"The following data was entered at $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}:\n\n" ;
# Find length of longest field name, for formatting; include space for colon
$maxlength= 0 ;
foreach (keys %in) {
$maxlength= length if length > $maxlength ;
}
$maxlength++ ;
# Print each CGI variable received by the script, one per line.
# This just prints the fields in alphabetical order. To define your own
# order, use something like
# foreach ('firstname', 'lastname', 'phone', 'address1', ... ) {
foreach (sort keys %in) {
# If a field has newlines, it's probably a block of text; indent it.
if ($in{$_}=~ /\n/) {
$in{$_}= "\n" . $in{$_} ;
$in{$_}=~ s/\n/\n /g ;
$in{$_}.= "\n" ;
}
# comma-separate multiple selections
$in{$_}=~ s/\0/, /g ;
# Print fields, aligning columns neatly
printf MAIL "%-${maxlength}s %s\n", "$_:", $in{$_} ;
}
# Close the process and mail the data
close(MAIL) ;
# Print an HTML response to the user
print <<EOF ;
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<body>
<h3>Your data has been sent.</h3>
</body>
</html>
EOF
exit ;
#-------------- start of &getcgivars() module, copied in -------------
# Read all CGI vars into an associative array.
# If multiple input fields have the same name, they are concatenated into
# one array element and delimited with the \0 character (which fails if
# the input has any \0 characters, very unlikely but conceivably possible).
# Currently only supports Content-Type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
sub getcgivars {
local($in, %in) ;
local($name, $value) ;
# First, read entire string of CGI vars into $in
if ( ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET') ||
($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'HEAD') ) {
$in= $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} ;
} elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {
if ($ENV{'CONTENT_TYPE'}=~ m#^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$#i) {
length($ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'})
|| &HTMLdie("No Content-Length sent with the POST request.") ;
read(STDIN, $in, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}) ;
} else {
&HTMLdie("Unsupported Content-Type: $ENV{'CONTENT_TYPE'}") ;
}
} else {
&HTMLdie("Script was called with unsupported REQUEST_METHOD.") ;
}
# Resolve and unencode name/value pairs into %in
foreach (split(/[&;]/, $in)) {
s/\+/ /g ;
($name, $value)= split('=', $_, 2) ;
$name=~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge ;
$value=~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge ;
$in{$name}.= "\0" if defined($in{$name}) ; # concatenate multiple vars
$in{$name}.= $value ;
}
return %in ;
}
# Die, outputting HTML error page
# If no $title, use a default title
sub HTMLdie {
local($msg,$title)= @_ ;
$title= "CGI Error" if $title eq '' ;
print <<EOF ;
Content-type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>$title</h1>
<h3>$msg</h3>
</body>
</html>
EOF
exit ;
}
#-------------- end of &getcgivars() module --------------------------
it is not working and i get the internal 500 error
i've tryed many solutions include just putting the fail safe:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "testing...\n";
. this still comes up as a 500 error.
i have named it mailer.pl and was wondering how to fix the 500 error
