On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:16:30PM -0800, Chris wrote:
> Hi, Charles,
>
>
> This runs fine in command line, it prints the HTML code of Yahoo's
> homepage. But when I run it as a CGI script from browser, it returns
> following message:
>
> LWP result: {500 Can't connect to www.yahoo.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.yahoo.com')}
>
> That's weird that the internet connection is fine (otherwise I
> wouldn't be able to reply this email). So it indicates that when a
> CGI script wants to do this, it will be blocked by some
> mechanism... I am not sure if it has anything to do with SELinux...
Hmm, a very different critter indeed. It sounds like a name resolution
problem. Can you run the script with a suitable IP address? That's not
a perfect long term solution (IP addresses change), but will at least
isolate the problem.
To get an ip address, run
host www.yahoo.com
Long term, if name resolution is indeed the problem, you need to find
out why you can resolve names as your own user but not as
apache:apache.
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