Re: LSMB through the perl debugger.

[Chris Bennett <..hidden..>]

Chris Travers wrote:
> There are a few options for debugging the software, and some of them
> require more knowledge of the code than others.
>
> The first option  (requiring less knowledge) is to use the following
> information to pull state info in the CGI app:
> 1)  print STDERR
> 2)  $form->debug
> 3) $form->error
>
> The second option is to actually create a script that can run in a
> debugger.  This requires more knowledge of the inputs than you might
> otherwise want to start with and it requires creating a wrapper script
> to simulate the CGI input.  You could probably (in 1.2) do this by
> passing the arg string to the script.
>
> For example:
> perl -d ct.pl "type=customer&action=add"
>
> If you are using Firefox and have the webdeveloper plugin, you can
> convert POST to GET methods and take the arg strings this way.
>   
This last bit sounds very useful.
I use that toolbar quite a lot.
I just used POST to GET today to debug if an anti-spambot method I just 
came up with was working.
Is there anything else I need to turn on or add to use this?
I noticed that Log.pm prints to STDERR.
Does this module work, could I redirect this output to a file I could tail?

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