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54310121 1package CGI::Carp;
2
3=head1 NAME
4
5B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log
6
7=head1 SYNOPSIS
8
9 use CGI::Carp;
10
11 croak "We're outta here!";
12 confess "It was my fault: $!";
13 carp "It was your fault!";
14 warn "I'm confused";
15 die "I'm dying.\n";
16
71f3e297 17 use CGI::Carp qw(cluck);
18 cluck "I wouldn't do that if I were you";
19
20 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
21 die "Fatal error messages are now sent to browser";
22
54310121 23=head1 DESCRIPTION
24
25CGI scripts have a nasty habit of leaving warning messages in the error
26logs that are neither time stamped nor fully identified. Tracking down
27the script that caused the error is a pain. This fixes that. Replace
28the usual
29
30 use Carp;
31
32with
33
34 use CGI::Carp
35
36And the standard warn(), die (), croak(), confess() and carp() calls
37will automagically be replaced with functions that write out nicely
38time-stamped messages to the HTTP server error log.
39
40For example:
41
42 [Fri Nov 17 21:40:43 1995] test.pl: I'm confused at test.pl line 3.
43 [Fri Nov 17 21:40:43 1995] test.pl: Got an error message: Permission denied.
44 [Fri Nov 17 21:40:43 1995] test.pl: I'm dying.
45
46=head1 REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
47
48By default, error messages are sent to STDERR. Most HTTPD servers
49direct STDERR to the server's error log. Some applications may wish
50to keep private error logs, distinct from the server's error log, or
51they may wish to direct error messages to STDOUT so that the browser
52will receive them.
53
54The C<carpout()> function is provided for this purpose. Since
55carpout() is not exported by default, you must import it explicitly by
56saying
57
58 use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
59
60The carpout() function requires one argument, which should be a
61reference to an open filehandle for writing errors. It should be
62called in a C<BEGIN> block at the top of the CGI application so that
63compiler errors will be caught. Example:
64
65 BEGIN {
66 use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
67 open(LOG, ">>/usr/local/cgi-logs/mycgi-log") or
68 die("Unable to open mycgi-log: $!\n");
69 carpout(LOG);
70 }
71
72carpout() does not handle file locking on the log for you at this point.
73
ba056755 74The real STDERR is not closed -- it is moved to CGI::Carp::SAVEERR. Some
54310121 75servers, when dealing with CGI scripts, close their connection to the
ba056755 76browser when the script closes STDOUT and STDERR. CGI::Carp::SAVEERR is there to
54310121 77prevent this from happening prematurely.
78
79You can pass filehandles to carpout() in a variety of ways. The "correct"
80way according to Tom Christiansen is to pass a reference to a filehandle
81GLOB:
82
83 carpout(\*LOG);
84
85This looks weird to mere mortals however, so the following syntaxes are
86accepted as well:
87
88 carpout(LOG);
89 carpout(main::LOG);
90 carpout(main'LOG);
91 carpout(\LOG);
92 carpout(\'main::LOG');
93
94 ... and so on
95
424ec8fa 96FileHandle and other objects work as well.
97
54310121 98Use of carpout() is not great for performance, so it is recommended
99for debugging purposes or for moderate-use applications. A future
100version of this module may delay redirecting STDERR until one of the
101CGI::Carp methods is called to prevent the performance hit.
102
103=head1 MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
104
105If you want to send fatal (die, confess) errors to the browser, ask to
106import the special "fatalsToBrowser" subroutine:
107
108 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
109 die "Bad error here";
110
111Fatal errors will now be echoed to the browser as well as to the log. CGI::Carp
112arranges to send a minimal HTTP header to the browser so that even errors that
113occur in the early compile phase will be seen.
114Nonfatal errors will still be directed to the log file only (unless redirected
115with carpout).
116
424ec8fa 117=head2 Changing the default message
118
119By default, the software error message is followed by a note to
120contact the Webmaster by e-mail with the time and date of the error.
121If this message is not to your liking, you can change it using the
122set_message() routine. This is not imported by default; you should
123import it on the use() line:
124
125 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);
126 set_message("It's not a bug, it's a feature!");
127
128You may also pass in a code reference in order to create a custom
129error message. At run time, your code will be called with the text
130of the error message that caused the script to die. Example:
131
132 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);
133 BEGIN {
134 sub handle_errors {
135 my $msg = shift;
136 print "<h1>Oh gosh</h1>";
b2d0d414 137 print "<p>Got an error: $msg</p>";
424ec8fa 138 }
139 set_message(\&handle_errors);
140 }
141
142In order to correctly intercept compile-time errors, you should call
143set_message() from within a BEGIN{} block.
144
6b4ac661 145=head1 MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
146
147It is now also possible to make non-fatal errors appear as HTML
148comments embedded in the output of your program. To enable this
149feature, export the new "warningsToBrowser" subroutine. Since sending
150warnings to the browser before the HTTP headers have been sent would
151cause an error, any warnings are stored in an internal buffer until
152you call the warningsToBrowser() subroutine with a true argument:
153
154 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
155 use CGI qw(:standard);
156 print header();
157 warningsToBrowser(1);
158
159You may also give a false argument to warningsToBrowser() to prevent
160warnings from being sent to the browser while you are printing some
161content where HTML comments are not allowed:
162
163 warningsToBrowser(0); # disable warnings
b2d0d414 164 print "<script type=\"text/javascript\"><!--\n";
6b4ac661 165 print_some_javascript_code();
b2d0d414 166 print "//--></script>\n";
6b4ac661 167 warningsToBrowser(1); # re-enable warnings
168
169Note: In this respect warningsToBrowser() differs fundamentally from
170fatalsToBrowser(), which you should never call yourself!
171
188ba755 172=head1 OVERRIDING THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM
173
174CGI::Carp includes the name of the program that generated the error or
175warning in the messages written to the log and the browser window.
176Sometimes, Perl can get confused about what the actual name of the
177executed program was. In these cases, you can override the program
178name that CGI::Carp will use for all messages.
179
180The quick way to do that is to tell CGI::Carp the name of the program
181in its use statement. You can do that by adding
182"name=cgi_carp_log_name" to your "use" statement. For example:
183
184 use CGI::Carp qw(name=cgi_carp_log_name);
185
186. If you want to change the program name partway through the program,
187you can use the C<set_progname()> function instead. It is not
188exported by default, you must import it explicitly by saying
189
190 use CGI::Carp qw(set_progname);
191
192Once you've done that, you can change the logged name of the program
193at any time by calling
194
195 set_progname(new_program_name);
196
197You can set the program back to the default by calling
198
199 set_progname(undef);
200
201Note that this override doesn't happen until after the program has
202compiled, so any compile-time errors will still show up with the
203non-overridden program name
204
54310121 205=head1 CHANGE LOG
206
2071.05 carpout() added and minor corrections by Marc Hedlund
208 <hedlund@best.com> on 11/26/95.
209
2101.06 fatalsToBrowser() no longer aborts for fatal errors within
211 eval() statements.
212
424ec8fa 2131.08 set_message() added and carpout() expanded to allow for FileHandle
214 objects.
215
2161.09 set_message() now allows users to pass a code REFERENCE for
217 really custom error messages. croak and carp are now
218 exported by default. Thanks to Gunther Birznieks for the
219 patches.
220
2211.10 Patch from Chris Dean (ctdean@cogit.com) to allow
222 module to run correctly under mod_perl.
223
71f3e297 2241.11 Changed order of &gt; and &lt; escapes.
225
2261.12 Changed die() on line 217 to CORE::die to avoid B<-w> warning.
227
2281.13 Added cluck() to make the module orthogonal with Carp.
6b4ac661 229 More mod_perl related fixes.
230
2311.20 Patch from Ilmari Karonen (perl@itz.pp.sci.fi): Added
232 warningsToBrowser(). Replaced <CODE> tags with <PRE> in
233 fatalsToBrowser() output.
71f3e297 234
b2d0d414 2351.23 ineval() now checks both $^S and inspects the message for the "eval" pattern
236 (hack alert!) in order to accomodate various combinations of Perl and
237 mod_perl.
238
188ba755 2391.24 Patch from Scott Gifford (sgifford@suspectclass.com): Add support
240 for overriding program name.
241
54310121 242=head1 AUTHORS
243
b2d0d414 244Copyright 1995-2002, Lincoln D. Stein. All rights reserved.
71f3e297 245
246This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
247it under the same terms as Perl itself.
54310121 248
71f3e297 249Address bug reports and comments to: lstein@cshl.org
54310121 250
251=head1 SEE ALSO
252
253Carp, CGI::Base, CGI::BasePlus, CGI::Request, CGI::MiniSvr, CGI::Form,
254CGI::Response
188ba755 255 if (defined($CGI::Carp::PROGNAME))
256 {
257 $file = $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME;
258 }
54310121 259
260=cut
261
262require 5.000;
263use Exporter;
3acbd4f5 264#use Carp;
265BEGIN { require Carp; }
7f16a916 266use File::Spec;
54310121 267
268@ISA = qw(Exporter);
269@EXPORT = qw(confess croak carp);
188ba755 270@EXPORT_OK = qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser wrap set_message set_progname cluck ^name=);
3538e1d5 271
54310121 272$main::SIG{__WARN__}=\&CGI::Carp::warn;
188ba755 273*CORE::GLOBAL::die = \&CGI::Carp::die;
274$CGI::Carp::VERSION = '1.24';
424ec8fa 275$CGI::Carp::CUSTOM_MSG = undef;
54310121 276
277# fancy import routine detects and handles 'errorWrap' specially.
278sub import {
279 my $pkg = shift;
280 my(%routines);
188ba755 281 my(@name);
282
283 if (@name=grep(/^name=/,@_))
284 {
285 my($n) = (split(/=/,$name[0]))[1];
286 set_progname($n);
287 @_=grep(!/^name=/,@_);
288 }
289
424ec8fa 290 grep($routines{$_}++,@_,@EXPORT);
291 $WRAP++ if $routines{'fatalsToBrowser'} || $routines{'wrap'};
6b4ac661 292 $WARN++ if $routines{'warningsToBrowser'};
54310121 293 my($oldlevel) = $Exporter::ExportLevel;
294 $Exporter::ExportLevel = 1;
295 Exporter::import($pkg,keys %routines);
296 $Exporter::ExportLevel = $oldlevel;
297}
298
299# These are the originals
9014bb8e 300sub realwarn { CORE::warn(@_); }
301sub realdie { CORE::die(@_); }
54310121 302
303sub id {
304 my $level = shift;
305 my($pack,$file,$line,$sub) = caller($level);
7f16a916 306 my($dev,$dirs,$id) = File::Spec->splitpath($file);
54310121 307 return ($file,$line,$id);
308}
309
310sub stamp {
311 my $time = scalar(localtime);
312 my $frame = 0;
ac734d8b 313 my ($id,$pack,$file,$dev,$dirs);
188ba755 314 if (defined($CGI::Carp::PROGNAME)) {
315 $id = $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME;
316 } else {
317 do {
318 $id = $file;
319 ($pack,$file) = caller($frame++);
320 } until !$file;
321 }
7f16a916 322 ($dev,$dirs,$id) = File::Spec->splitpath($id);
54310121 323 return "[$time] $id: ";
324}
325
188ba755 326sub set_progname {
327 $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME = shift;
328 return $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME;
329}
330
331
54310121 332sub warn {
333 my $message = shift;
334 my($file,$line,$id) = id(1);
335 $message .= " at $file line $line.\n" unless $message=~/\n$/;
6b4ac661 336 _warn($message) if $WARN;
54310121 337 my $stamp = stamp;
338 $message=~s/^/$stamp/gm;
339 realwarn $message;
340}
341
6b4ac661 342sub _warn {
343 my $msg = shift;
344 if ($EMIT_WARNINGS) {
345 # We need to mangle the message a bit to make it a valid HTML
346 # comment. This is done by substituting similar-looking ISO
347 # 8859-1 characters for <, > and -. This is a hack.
348 $msg =~ tr/<>-/\253\273\255/;
349 chomp $msg;
350 print STDOUT "<!-- warning: $msg -->\n";
351 } else {
352 push @WARNINGS, $msg;
353 }
354}
355
188ba755 356sub ineval {
357 (exists $ENV{MOD_PERL} ? 0 : $^S) || _longmess() =~ /eval [\{\']/m
358}
359
6b4ac661 360
424ec8fa 361# The mod_perl package Apache::Registry loads CGI programs by calling
362# eval. These evals don't count when looking at the stack backtrace.
363sub _longmess {
364 my $message = Carp::longmess();
71f3e297 365 my $mod_perl = exists $ENV{MOD_PERL};
424ec8fa 366 $message =~ s,eval[^\n]+Apache/Registry\.pm.*,,s if $mod_perl;
6b4ac661 367 return $message;
424ec8fa 368}
369
54310121 370sub die {
3538e1d5 371 realdie @_ if ineval;
6b4ac661 372 my ($message) = @_;
3538e1d5 373 my $time = scalar(localtime);
374 my($file,$line,$id) = id(1);
375 $message .= " at $file line $line." unless $message=~/\n$/;
376 &fatalsToBrowser($message) if $WRAP;
377 my $stamp = stamp;
378 $message=~s/^/$stamp/gm;
379 realdie $message;
54310121 380}
381
424ec8fa 382sub set_message {
383 $CGI::Carp::CUSTOM_MSG = shift;
384 return $CGI::Carp::CUSTOM_MSG;
385}
386
2371fea9 387sub confess { CGI::Carp::die Carp::longmess @_; }
388sub croak { CGI::Carp::die Carp::shortmess @_; }
389sub carp { CGI::Carp::warn Carp::shortmess @_; }
390sub cluck { CGI::Carp::warn Carp::longmess @_; }
54310121 391
392# We have to be ready to accept a filehandle as a reference
393# or a string.
394sub carpout {
395 my($in) = @_;
424ec8fa 396 my($no) = fileno(to_filehandle($in));
71f3e297 397 realdie("Invalid filehandle $in\n") unless defined $no;
54310121 398
399 open(SAVEERR, ">&STDERR");
400 open(STDERR, ">&$no") or
401 ( print SAVEERR "Unable to redirect STDERR: $!\n" and exit(1) );
402}
403
6b4ac661 404sub warningsToBrowser {
405 $EMIT_WARNINGS = @_ ? shift : 1;
406 _warn(shift @WARNINGS) while $EMIT_WARNINGS and @WARNINGS;
407}
408
54310121 409# headers
410sub fatalsToBrowser {
411 my($msg) = @_;
71f3e297 412 $msg=~s/&/&amp;/g;
54310121 413 $msg=~s/>/&gt;/g;
414 $msg=~s/</&lt;/g;
424ec8fa 415 $msg=~s/\"/&quot;/g;
416 my($wm) = $ENV{SERVER_ADMIN} ?
417 qq[the webmaster (<a href="mailto:$ENV{SERVER_ADMIN}">$ENV{SERVER_ADMIN}</a>)] :
418 "this site's webmaster";
419 my ($outer_message) = <<END;
420For help, please send mail to $wm, giving this error message
421and the time and date of the error.
422END
423 ;
71f3e297 424 my $mod_perl = exists $ENV{MOD_PERL};
425 print STDOUT "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
426 unless $mod_perl;
424ec8fa 427
6b4ac661 428 warningsToBrowser(1); # emit warnings before dying
429
424ec8fa 430 if ($CUSTOM_MSG) {
431 if (ref($CUSTOM_MSG) eq 'CODE') {
432 &$CUSTOM_MSG($msg); # nicer to perl 5.003 users
433 return;
434 } else {
435 $outer_message = $CUSTOM_MSG;
436 }
437 }
438
71f3e297 439 my $mess = <<END;
b2d0d414 440<h1>Software error:</h1>
441<pre>$msg</pre>
442<p>
71f3e297 443$outer_message
b2d0d414 444</p>
54310121 445END
424ec8fa 446 ;
71f3e297 447
3d1a2ec4 448 if ($mod_perl && (my $r = Apache->request)) {
71f3e297 449 # If bytes have already been sent, then
450 # we print the message out directly.
451 # Otherwise we make a custom error
452 # handler to produce the doc for us.
453 if ($r->bytes_sent) {
454 $r->print($mess);
455 $r->exit;
456 } else {
457 $r->status(500);
458 $r->custom_response(500,$mess);
459 }
460 } else {
461 print STDOUT $mess;
462 }
424ec8fa 463}
464
465# Cut and paste from CGI.pm so that we don't have the overhead of
466# always loading the entire CGI module.
467sub to_filehandle {
468 my $thingy = shift;
469 return undef unless $thingy;
470 return $thingy if UNIVERSAL::isa($thingy,'GLOB');
471 return $thingy if UNIVERSAL::isa($thingy,'FileHandle');
472 if (!ref($thingy)) {
473 my $caller = 1;
474 while (my $package = caller($caller++)) {
475 my($tmp) = $thingy=~/[\':]/ ? $thingy : "$package\:\:$thingy";
476 return $tmp if defined(fileno($tmp));
477 }
478 }
479 return undef;
54310121 480}
481
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