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Perl & CGI - Configure.cgi did not produce a v alid header in unix box

Expert: Marty Landman - 2/25/2009

Question
When i am running my application on Iplanet Web server 6.0, I got error "GET /cgi-bin/NG_Notifier/Configure.cgi?custid=C27&projid=P6192&filterId=0&viewornode=NODE&viewornodeid=2129 HTTP/1.1" 500 305"
.it was developed in CGI language on Unix box. Has anyone seen this before or know what may be causing this problem? Thanks in advance.
Mohan

Answer
Mohan,

You can see what these status codes mean looking at the W3's website at

http://littlelink.webtrouble.com/?T1Df

The 305 has to do with a proxy request - in this case really it seems to mean a header redirect. Header redirects are done like the example you can see at

http://www.thecgibin.com/quickcode/redirect.shtml

OTOH the 500 is a generic server error.

The issue might be with the server's firewall preventing the header redirect, but this is strictly an educated guess at this point.

Look over the code, especially for a header redirect.

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