package CGI::Carp; =head1 NAME B - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log =head1 SYNOPSIS use CGI::Carp; croak "We're outta here!"; confess "It was my fault: $!"; carp "It was your fault!"; warn "I'm confused"; die "I'm dying.\n"; use CGI::Carp qw(cluck); cluck "I wouldn't do that if I were you"; use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); die "Fatal error messages are now sent to browser"; =head1 DESCRIPTION CGI scripts have a nasty habit of leaving warning messages in the error logs that are neither time stamped nor fully identified. Tracking down the script that caused the error is a pain. This fixes that. Replace the usual use Carp; with use CGI::Carp And the standard warn(), die (), croak(), confess() and carp() calls will automagically be replaced with functions that write out nicely time-stamped messages to the HTTP server error log. For example: [Fri Nov 17 21:40:43 1995] test.pl: I'm confused at test.pl line 3. [Fri Nov 17 21:40:43 1995] test.pl: Got an error message: Permission denied. [Fri Nov 17 21:40:43 1995] test.pl: I'm dying. =head1 REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES By default, error messages are sent to STDERR. Most HTTPD servers direct STDERR to the server's error log. Some applications may wish to keep private error logs, distinct from the server's error log, or they may wish to direct error messages to STDOUT so that the browser will receive them. The C function is provided for this purpose. Since carpout() is not exported by default, you must import it explicitly by saying use CGI::Carp qw(carpout); The carpout() function requires one argument, which should be a reference to an open filehandle for writing errors. It should be called in a C block at the top of the CGI application so that compiler errors will be caught. Example: BEGIN { use CGI::Carp qw(carpout); open(LOG, ">>/usr/local/cgi-logs/mycgi-log") or die("Unable to open mycgi-log: $!\n"); carpout(LOG); } carpout() does not handle file locking on the log for you at this point. The real STDERR is not closed -- it is moved to CGI::Carp::SAVEERR. Some servers, when dealing with CGI scripts, close their connection to the browser when the script closes STDOUT and STDERR. CGI::Carp::SAVEERR is there to prevent this from happening prematurely. You can pass filehandles to carpout() in a variety of ways. The "correct" way according to Tom Christiansen is to pass a reference to a filehandle GLOB: carpout(\*LOG); This looks weird to mere mortals however, so the following syntaxes are accepted as well: carpout(LOG); carpout(main::LOG); carpout(main'LOG); carpout(\LOG); carpout(\'main::LOG'); ... and so on FileHandle and other objects work as well. Use of carpout() is not great for performance, so it is recommended for debugging purposes or for moderate-use applications. A future version of this module may delay redirecting STDERR until one of the CGI::Carp methods is called to prevent the performance hit. =head1 MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW If you want to send fatal (die, confess) errors to the browser, ask to import the special "fatalsToBrowser" subroutine: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); die "Bad error here"; Fatal errors will now be echoed to the browser as well as to the log. CGI::Carp arranges to send a minimal HTTP header to the browser so that even errors that occur in the early compile phase will be seen. Nonfatal errors will still be directed to the log file only (unless redirected with carpout). =head2 Changing the default message By default, the software error message is followed by a note to contact the Webmaster by e-mail with the time and date of the error. If this message is not to your liking, you can change it using the set_message() routine. This is not imported by default; you should import it on the use() line: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message); set_message("It's not a bug, it's a feature!"); You may also pass in a code reference in order to create a custom error message. At run time, your code will be called with the text of the error message that caused the script to die. Example: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message); BEGIN { sub handle_errors { my $msg = shift; print "

Oh gosh

"; print "

Got an error: $msg

"; } set_message(\&handle_errors); } In order to correctly intercept compile-time errors, you should call set_message() from within a BEGIN{} block. =head1 MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS It is now also possible to make non-fatal errors appear as HTML comments embedded in the output of your program. To enable this feature, export the new "warningsToBrowser" subroutine. Since sending warnings to the browser before the HTTP headers have been sent would cause an error, any warnings are stored in an internal buffer until you call the warningsToBrowser() subroutine with a true argument: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser); use CGI qw(:standard); print header(); warningsToBrowser(1); You may also give a false argument to warningsToBrowser() to prevent warnings from being sent to the browser while you are printing some content where HTML comments are not allowed: warningsToBrowser(0); # disable warnings print "\n"; warningsToBrowser(1); # re-enable warnings Note: In this respect warningsToBrowser() differs fundamentally from fatalsToBrowser(), which you should never call yourself! =head1 OVERRIDING THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM CGI::Carp includes the name of the program that generated the error or warning in the messages written to the log and the browser window. Sometimes, Perl can get confused about what the actual name of the executed program was. In these cases, you can override the program name that CGI::Carp will use for all messages. The quick way to do that is to tell CGI::Carp the name of the program in its use statement. You can do that by adding "name=cgi_carp_log_name" to your "use" statement. For example: use CGI::Carp qw(name=cgi_carp_log_name); . If you want to change the program name partway through the program, you can use the C function instead. It is not exported by default, you must import it explicitly by saying use CGI::Carp qw(set_progname); Once you've done that, you can change the logged name of the program at any time by calling set_progname(new_program_name); You can set the program back to the default by calling set_progname(undef); Note that this override doesn't happen until after the program has compiled, so any compile-time errors will still show up with the non-overridden program name =head1 CHANGE LOG 1.05 carpout() added and minor corrections by Marc Hedlund on 11/26/95. 1.06 fatalsToBrowser() no longer aborts for fatal errors within eval() statements. 1.08 set_message() added and carpout() expanded to allow for FileHandle objects. 1.09 set_message() now allows users to pass a code REFERENCE for really custom error messages. croak and carp are now exported by default. Thanks to Gunther Birznieks for the patches. 1.10 Patch from Chris Dean (ctdean@cogit.com) to allow module to run correctly under mod_perl. 1.11 Changed order of > and < escapes. 1.12 Changed die() on line 217 to CORE::die to avoid B<-w> warning. 1.13 Added cluck() to make the module orthogonal with Carp. More mod_perl related fixes. 1.20 Patch from Ilmari Karonen (perl@itz.pp.sci.fi): Added warningsToBrowser(). Replaced tags with
 in
     fatalsToBrowser() output.

1.23 ineval() now checks both $^S and inspects the message for the "eval" pattern
     (hack alert!) in order to accomodate various combinations of Perl and
     mod_perl.

1.24 Patch from Scott Gifford (sgifford@suspectclass.com): Add support
     for overriding program name.

1.26 Replaced CORE::GLOBAL::die with the evil $SIG{__DIE__} because the
     former isn't working in some people's hands.  There is no such thing
     as reliable exception handling in Perl.

1.27 Replaced tell STDOUT with bytes=tell STDOUT.

=head1 AUTHORS

Copyright 1995-2002, Lincoln D. Stein.  All rights reserved.  

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Address bug reports and comments to: lstein@cshl.org

=head1 SEE ALSO

Carp, CGI::Base, CGI::BasePlus, CGI::Request, CGI::MiniSvr, CGI::Form,
CGI::Response
    if (defined($CGI::Carp::PROGNAME)) 
    {
      $file = $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME;
    }

=cut

require 5.000;
use Exporter;
#use Carp;
BEGIN { 
  require Carp; 
  *CORE::GLOBAL::die = \&CGI::Carp::die;
}

use File::Spec;

@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(confess croak carp);
@EXPORT_OK = qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser wrap set_message set_progname cluck ^name= die);

$main::SIG{__WARN__}=\&CGI::Carp::warn;

$CGI::Carp::VERSION    = '1.27';
$CGI::Carp::CUSTOM_MSG = undef;


# fancy import routine detects and handles 'errorWrap' specially.
sub import {
    my $pkg = shift;
    my(%routines);
    my(@name);
  
    if (@name=grep(/^name=/,@_))
      {
        my($n) = (split(/=/,$name[0]))[1];
        set_progname($n);
        @_=grep(!/^name=/,@_);
      }

    grep($routines{$_}++,@_,@EXPORT);
    $WRAP++ if $routines{'fatalsToBrowser'} || $routines{'wrap'};
    $WARN++ if $routines{'warningsToBrowser'};
    my($oldlevel) = $Exporter::ExportLevel;
    $Exporter::ExportLevel = 1;
    Exporter::import($pkg,keys %routines);
    $Exporter::ExportLevel = $oldlevel;
    $main::SIG{__DIE__} =\&CGI::Carp::die if $routines{'fatalsToBrowser'};
#    $pkg->export('CORE::GLOBAL','die');
}

# These are the originals
sub realwarn { CORE::warn(@_); }
sub realdie { CORE::die(@_); }

sub id {
    my $level = shift;
    my($pack,$file,$line,$sub) = caller($level);
    my($dev,$dirs,$id) = File::Spec->splitpath($file);
    return ($file,$line,$id);
}

sub stamp {
    my $time = scalar(localtime);
    my $frame = 0;
    my ($id,$pack,$file,$dev,$dirs);
    if (defined($CGI::Carp::PROGNAME)) {
        $id = $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME;
    } else {
        do {
  	  $id = $file;
	  ($pack,$file) = caller($frame++);
        } until !$file;
    }
    ($dev,$dirs,$id) = File::Spec->splitpath($id);
    return "[$time] $id: ";
}

sub set_progname {
    $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME = shift;
    return $CGI::Carp::PROGNAME;
}


sub warn {
    my $message = shift;
    my($file,$line,$id) = id(1);
    $message .= " at $file line $line.\n" unless $message=~/\n$/;
    _warn($message) if $WARN;
    my $stamp = stamp;
    $message=~s/^/$stamp/gm;
    realwarn $message;
}

sub _warn {
    my $msg = shift;
    if ($EMIT_WARNINGS) {
	# We need to mangle the message a bit to make it a valid HTML
	# comment.  This is done by substituting similar-looking ISO
	# 8859-1 characters for <, > and -.  This is a hack.
	$msg =~ tr/<>-/\253\273\255/;
	chomp $msg;
	print STDOUT "\n";
    } else {
	push @WARNINGS, $msg;
    }
}


# The mod_perl package Apache::Registry loads CGI programs by calling
# eval.  These evals don't count when looking at the stack backtrace.
sub _longmess {
    my $message = Carp::longmess();
    $message =~ s,eval[^\n]+(ModPerl|Apache)/Registry\w*\.pm.*,,s
        if exists $ENV{MOD_PERL};
    return $message;
}

sub ineval {
  (exists $ENV{MOD_PERL} ? 0 : $^S) || _longmess() =~ /eval [\{\']/m
}

sub die {
  my ($arg) = @_;
  realdie @_ if ineval;
  if (!ref($arg)) {
    $arg = join("", @_);
    my($file,$line,$id) = id(1);
    $arg .= " at $file line $line." unless $arg=~/\n$/;
    &fatalsToBrowser($arg) if $WRAP;
    if (($arg =~ /\n$/) || !exists($ENV{MOD_PERL})) {
      my $stamp = stamp;
      $arg=~s/^/$stamp/gm;
    }
    if ($arg !~ /\n$/) {
      $arg .= "\n";
    }
  }
  realdie $arg;
}

sub set_message {
    $CGI::Carp::CUSTOM_MSG = shift;
    return $CGI::Carp::CUSTOM_MSG;
}

sub confess { CGI::Carp::die Carp::longmess @_; }
sub croak   { CGI::Carp::die Carp::shortmess @_; }
sub carp    { CGI::Carp::warn Carp::shortmess @_; }
sub cluck   { CGI::Carp::warn Carp::longmess @_; }

# We have to be ready to accept a filehandle as a reference
# or a string.
sub carpout {
    my($in) = @_;
    my($no) = fileno(to_filehandle($in));
    realdie("Invalid filehandle $in\n") unless defined $no;
    
    open(SAVEERR, ">&STDERR");
    open(STDERR, ">&$no") or 
	( print SAVEERR "Unable to redirect STDERR: $!\n" and exit(1) );
}

sub warningsToBrowser {
    $EMIT_WARNINGS = @_ ? shift : 1;
    _warn(shift @WARNINGS) while $EMIT_WARNINGS and @WARNINGS;
}

# headers
sub fatalsToBrowser {
  my($msg) = @_;
  $msg=~s/&/&/g;
  $msg=~s/>/>/g;
  $msg=~s/$ENV{SERVER_ADMIN})] :
      "this site's webmaster";
  my ($outer_message) = <Software error:
$msg

$outer_message

END ; if ($mod_perl) { require mod_perl; if ($mod_perl::VERSION >= 1.99) { $mod_perl = 2; require Apache::RequestRec; require Apache::RequestIO; require Apache::RequestUtil; require APR::Pool; require ModPerl::Util; require Apache::Response; } my $r = Apache->request; # If bytes have already been sent, then # we print the message out directly. # Otherwise we make a custom error # handler to produce the doc for us. if ($r->bytes_sent) { $r->print($mess); $mod_perl == 2 ? ModPerl::Util::exit(0) : $r->exit; } else { # MSIE won't display a custom 500 response unless it is >512 bytes! if ($ENV{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /MSIE/) { $mess = "\n$mess"; } $r->custom_response(500,$mess); } } else { my $bytes_written = eval{tell STDOUT}; if (defined $bytes_written && $bytes_written > 0) { print STDOUT $mess; } else { print STDOUT "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print STDOUT $mess; } } } # Cut and paste from CGI.pm so that we don't have the overhead of # always loading the entire CGI module. sub to_filehandle { my $thingy = shift; return undef unless $thingy; return $thingy if UNIVERSAL::isa($thingy,'GLOB'); return $thingy if UNIVERSAL::isa($thingy,'FileHandle'); if (!ref($thingy)) { my $caller = 1; while (my $package = caller($caller++)) { my($tmp) = $thingy=~/[\':]/ ? $thingy : "$package\:\:$thingy"; return $tmp if defined(fileno($tmp)); } } return undef; } 1;