perl/dbi Can't create TCP/IP socket

Tue Sep 25 00:55:00 GMT 2001

I narrowed it down and found that perl/dbi works from the shell prompt, but not from cgi.
Not really sure how they interface and would appreciate any pointers.
thanks,
dale 
>>I can connect to a remote mysql server via the mysql client at a
>cygwin shell prompt, but when I try from the localhost browser running
>apache 1.3.20, I get the above error msg.
>> $dbh = DBI->connect("$data_source", "$username", "$password",
>{ RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1, AutoCommit => 1 });
>where $data_source = DBI:mysql:<database name>:www.freesql.org:3306
>>and <database name> is a plain text name
>>Is there any explanation for this?
>>the apache httpd.conf has the same User as $username in $dbh value.
>>thanks for any replies,
>dale

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