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Demo ASP: syntax_error.asp 2026-05-07

We are creating a perl syntax error... this should demonstrate how error handling is done. Please check the error log file if you are interested in the output there.

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Errors Output

  1. error including compile_error.inc, not compiled: Bareword "code" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/compile_error.inc line 5. , /usr/local/share/perl5/Apache/ASP.pm line 1522
Debug Output
  1. RUN ASP (v2.63) for /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/syntax_error.asp
  2. GlobalASA package Apache::ASP::Demo
  3. creating dbm for file /tmp/asp_demo/server/internal, db SDBM_File, serializer: Data::Dumper
  4. creating dbm for file /tmp/asp_demo/server/application, db SDBM_File, serializer: Data::Dumper
  5. refreshing 0468aa32de0aaf3286f6c7a60814d821 with timeout 1778119985
  6. new session id 0468aa32de0aaf3286f6c7a60814d821
  7. creating dbm for file /tmp/asp_demo/04/0468aa32de0aaf3286f6c7a60814d821, db SDBM_File, serializer: Data::Dumper
  8. tieing session 0468aa32de0aaf3286f6c7a60814d821
  9. clearing starting session
  10. Session_OnStart - session: 0468aa32de0aaf3286f6c7a60814d821;
  11. executing Session_OnStart
  12. Script_OnStart
  13. executing Script_OnStart
  14. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnStart /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/syntax_error.asp in global.asa
  15. executing Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP__local_proj_asp_eg_synta__error_aspx912a61bdf9084209b6314417f66088c7xINC
  16. Script_OnFlush
  17. executing Script_OnFlush
  18. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnFlush: about to flush 1 bytes to client
  19. building headers
  20. sending cgi headers
  21. executing Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP__usr_local_proj_asp_eg_header_incx3436ef45a26199e890479d9a7f0923bcxINC
  22. Script_OnFlush
  23. executing Script_OnFlush
  24. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnFlush: about to flush 871 bytes to client
  25. Script_OnFlush
  26. executing Script_OnFlush
  27. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnFlush: about to flush 82 bytes to client
  28. done executing include code Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP__usr_local_proj_asp_eg_header_incx3436ef45a26199e890479d9a7f0923bcxINC
  29. Script_OnFlush
  30. executing Script_OnFlush
  31. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnFlush: about to flush 537 bytes to client
  32. [syntax_error.asp] - Debugging - can; take - just: about; - any; kind - of reference - or scalar
  33. Script_OnFlush
  34. executing Script_OnFlush
  35. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnFlush: about to flush 77 bytes to client
  36. Script_OnFlush
  37. executing Script_OnFlush
  38. [syntax_error.asp] - Script_OnFlush: about to flush 269 bytes to client
  39. parse file /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/compile_error.inc
  40. parsing /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/compile_error.inc
  41. start parse of data - 116
  42. undefing sub Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP_local_proj_asp_eg_compile_error_incx921cacac8ca764a2f25214b2023f9318xINC code CODE(0x5562c852dcb0)
  43. compiling into package Apache::ASP::Demo subid [Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP_local_proj_asp_eg_compile_error_incx921cacac8ca764a2f25214b2023f9318xINC]
  44. undefing sub Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP_local_proj_asp_eg_compile_error_incx921cacac8ca764a2f25214b2023f9318xINC code CODE(0x5562c852dcb0)
  45. error including compile_error.inc, not compiled: Bareword "code" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/compile_error.inc line 5. , /usr/local/share/perl5/Apache/ASP.pm line 1522
  46. ASP Done Processing Apache::ASP=HASH(0x5562c8557230) - Application: Apache::ASP::Application=HASH(0x5562c8542948); GlobalASA: Apache::ASP::GlobalASA=HASH(0x5562c855b008); Internal: Apache::ASP::State=HASH(0x5562c84e15e8); Request: Apache::ASP::Request=HASH(0x5562c8542858); Response: Apache::ASP::Response=HASH(0x5562c84b2ec8); Server: Apache::ASP::Server=HASH(0x5562c84f6cf0); Session: Apache::ASP::Session=HASH(0x5562c855ac48); app_state: 1; basename: syntax_error.asp; cleanup: ARRAY(0x5562c84b2808); compile_checksum: 3436ef45a26199e890479d9a7f0923bc; compile_error: 1; compile_eval: SCALAR(0x5562c852dc80); compile_includes: 1; compile_perl_count: 1; cookie_domain: ; cookie_path: /; dbg: 3; debugs_output: ARRAY(0x5562c8557170); destroy: 1; dir_config: APR::Table=HASH(0x5562c8542390); dirname: /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/; errors_output: ARRAY(0x5562c8542828); errs: 1; filename: /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/syntax_error.asp; global: /usr/local/proj/asp/eg//.; global_package: Apache::ASP::Demo; group_refresh: 30; headers_in: APR::Table=HASH(0x5562c84d1e70); http_only_session: ; includes_dir: ARRAY(0x5562c850cbb0); init_packages: ARRAY(0x5562c855b0f8); inode_names: 0; lang_comment: #; lang_language: PerlScript; lang_module: Apache::ASP::Lang::PerlScript; lang_object: Apache::ASP::Lang::PerlScript=HASH(0x5562c84e1120); last_compile_include_data: HASH(0x5562c84e75d8); last_time: 1778119685.6371; no_cache: 0; package: Apache::ASP::Demo; paranoid_session: ; parse_config: 1; parse_file_count: 1; pod_comments: 1; r: Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x5562c8557890); remote_ip: 216.73.217.147; request_binary_read: 1; response_tied: 1; run_perl_script: SCALAR(0x5562c84b3138); search_dirs_cache: HASH(0x5562c84b2f28); secure_session: ; session_count: 1; session_id: 0468aa32de0aaf3286f6c7a60814d821; session_serialize: ; session_state: 1; session_timeout: 300; session_url: 1; session_url_force: ; session_url_match: ; session_url_parse: 0; session_url_parse_match: ; start_time: 1778119685.63043; stat_inc: 0; stat_inc_match: 0; stat_scripts: 1; state_db: ; state_dir: /tmp/asp_demo; state_manager: 10; state_serialize: ; state_serializer: ; ua: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com); use_strict: 1; win32: 0; xml_subs_match: my:\w+; xml_subs_perl_args: 1; xml_subs_strict: ; xslt: 0;
  47. errors out
  48. error including compile_error.inc, not compiled: Bareword "code" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/compile_error.inc line 5. , /usr/local/share/perl5/Apache/ASP.pm line 1522 
Compiled Data with Error 

  -: package Apache::ASP::Demo; ;; sub Apache::ASP::Demo::__ASP_local_proj_asp_eg_compile_error_incx921cacac8ca764a2f25214b2023f9318xINC {  ;; package Apache::ASP::Demo; ;; use strict;;;use vars qw($Application $Session $Response $Server $Request);;
  -: #line 1 /usr/local/proj/asp/eg/compile_error.inc
  1: ;;&Apache::ASP::WriteRef($main::Response, \('
  2: This next code block contains invalid perl code that will
  3: generate a compile time error.
  4: ')); 
  5:  invalid perl code;
  6: ;  ;; }
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