Re: tracing a PERL cgi script
Typing away merrily, Chad A. Adlawan produced the immortal words:
> were trying oto debug this _big_ PERL web application (lots of forms, etc, whatever) and it seems like were really lost w/ its code.
> is there any way that you can do a line by line trace when a PERL code is executed on the web that way, we'll have some idea w/c goes where ?
Do you control the programs installed on the server?
If so, install a second copy of perl, one with debugging support
enabled. Then go and read perlrun(1) for information on -D switches.
Eg,
#!/bin/perl_debug -Dtls
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