Question

The error information from the browser:

Software error: Insecure dependency in connect while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/cygwin-thread-multi-64int/IO/Socket.pm line 114.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

The information in apache error log

[Wed Oct 13 15:29:34 2004] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] [Wed Oct 13 21:29:34 2004] c:\twiki\bin\register: Insecure dependency in connect while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/cygwin-thread-multi-64int/IO/Socket.pm line 114.

[Wed Oct 13 15:32:07 2004] [notice] cannot use a full URL in a 401 ErrorDocument directive --- ignoring!

The new user name can be seen in data/.htpasswd after this failed registration, but invisible in users list in TWiki.

Test the environment for TWiki
Please read the TWikiInstallationNotes for more information on TWiki installation. 
Environment variables:
COMSPEC C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe 
DOCUMENT_ROOT c:/easyphp/www 
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 
HOME /twiki 
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */* 
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate 
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE zh-cn,en-us;q=0.5 
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive 
HTTP_COOKIE sboard_settings[member_id]=0; sboard_settings[prevvisit]=1095943866; sboard_settings[current_view]=threaded; phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bs%3A32%3A%22d9725c9cef2a830ea7bac94e9f14391f%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22userid%22%3Bi%3A64%3B%7D; usercookie[username]=liao; usercookie[password]=d9725c9cef2a830ea7bac94e9f14391f; sessioncookie=5fef1fb897fb5ad0a35f65200ae75da9 
HTTP_HOST xxx.net 
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 
HTTP_WEFERER AALPTCXLYRWTQTIPWIGYOKSTTZRCLBDXRQBGJSNBOHMKHJYFMYXO 
LOGNAME system 
PATH /c/Perl/bin:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Msdev98/BIN:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/DF98/BIN:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/BIN:/c/texmf/miktex/bin:/c/WINNT/system32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:.
QUERY_STRING  
RCSINIT -x,v/ 
REMOTE_ADDR xx.xx.xx.xx 
REMOTE_PORT 1315 
REQUEST_METHOD GET 
REQUEST_URI /twiki/bin/testenv 
SCRIPT_FILENAME c:/twiki/bin/testenv 
SCRIPT_NAME /twiki/bin/testenv 
SERVER_ADDR xx.xx.xx.xx 
SERVER_ADMIN admin@localhost 
SERVER_NAME xxx.net 
SERVER_PORT 80 
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 
SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.27 Server at xxx.net Port 80 
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.27 (Win32) PHP/4.3.3 
SYSTEMROOT C:\WINNT 
TEMP /c/temp 
TERM cygwin 
TMP /c/temp 
TZ GMT0BST 
WINDIR C:\WINNT 

CGI Setup:
Operating system: Windows (cygwin) 
Perl version: 5.8.5-3 (Cygwin) 
@INC library path: ../lib
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/cygwin-thread-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/cygwin-thread-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/cygwin-thread-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
. 
 Note: This is the Perl library path, used to load TWiki modules, third-party modules used by some plugins, and Perl built-in modules. 
TWiki module in @INC path:  
 OK, TWiki.pm found (TWiki version: 01 Sep 2004 $Rev: 1742 $) 
Required Perl modules:  
 CGI (3.05) 
 CGI::Carp (1.28) 
 File::Copy (2.08) 
 File::Spec (0.87) 
 FileHandle (2.01) 
 Digest::SHA1 (2.10) 
 MIME::Base64 (3.01) 
 Net::SMTP (2.29) 
Optional Perl modules:  
 Algorithm::Diff (1.02) 
 MIME::Base64 (3.01) 
 POSIX (1.08) 
 Encode (2.01) 
 Unicode::MapUTF8 (1.09) 
 Unicode::Map (0.112) 
 Unicode::Map8 (0.12) 
 Jcode (0.87) 
 Digest::MD5 (2.33) 
PATH_INFO:  
 Note: For a URL such as http://xxx.net/twiki/bin/testenv/foo/bar, the correct PATH_INFO is /foo/bar, without any prefixed path components. Test this now - particularly if you are using mod_perl, Apache or IIS, or are using a web hosting provider. The page resulting from the test link should have a PATH_INFO of /foo/bar.  
mod_perl: Not used for this script (mod_perl not loaded into Apache)  
User: system  
 Note: Your CGI scripts are executing as this user. 
 Warning: Since your CGI script is not running as user nobody, you need to change the locks in the *,v RCS files of the TWiki distribution from nobody to system. Otherwise, changes to topics will not be logged by RCS.  
 Fix: If needed, relock all the rcs files to user system 
Group(s): administrators administrators root 

Test of TWiki.cfg Configuration:
$defaultUrlHost: http://xxx.net 
 Note: This must match the protocol and host part (with optional port number) of the TWiki URL. 
$scriptUrlPath: /twiki/bin 
 Note: This must match the 'cgi-bin' part of the URL used to access the TWiki cgi-bin directory. 
$pubUrlPath: /twiki/pub 
 Note: This must be the URL of the public directory.This is not set correctly if the /twiki/pub/wikiHome.gif image below is broken:
 
$pubDir: /twiki/pub 
 Note: This is the public directory, as seen from the file system. It must correspond to $pubUrlPath. 
$templateDir: /twiki/templates 
 Note: This is the TWiki template directory, as seen from the file system.  
 Warning: Security issue: This directory should not be writable by the system user. 
$dataDir: /twiki/data 
 Note: This is the data directory where TWiki stores all topics. 
$mailProgram: /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oeq 
 Note: This is not typically used on Windows - the Perl Net::SMTP module is used instead. 
$rcsDir: c:/cygwin/bin 
 Note: This is the directory where RCS is located. 
RCS Version: 5.7  (Cygwin package rcs-5.7-3) 
 Note: This is the version of RCS which will be used. 
$lsCmd: /bin/ls 
 Note: This is the file list program TWiki uses to list topics. 
$egrepCmd: /bin/grep -E 
 Note: This is a program TWiki uses for search. 
$fgrepCmd: /bin/grep -F 
 Note: This is a program TWiki uses for search. 
$safeEnvPath: /usr/bin 
 Note: This is used to initialise the PATH variable, and is used to run the 'diff' program used by RCS, as well as to run shell programs such as cmd.exe or Cygwin's 'bash'. 
Since you are using Cygwin Perl, 'bash' will be used without any special setup. 
 

Path and Shell Environment
Original PATH: /c/Perl/bin:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Msdev98/BIN:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/DF98/BIN:/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/BIN:/c/texmf/miktex/bin:/c/WINNT/system32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/c/Program Files/Symantec/pcAnywhere/:. 
 Note: This is the PATH value passed in from the web server to this script - it is reset by TWiki scripts to the PATH below, and is provided here for comparison purposes only.  
Current PATH: /usr/bin 
 Note: This is the actual PATH setting that will be used by Perl to run programs. It is normally identical to $safeEnvPath, unless that variable is empty.  
diff: GNU diff was found on the PATH - this is the recommended diff tool. 
 Note: The 'diff' command is used by RCS to compare files.  

User Authentication
htpasswd Format Family: htpasswd 
htpasswd Encoding: sha1 
htpasswd Filename: /twiki/data/.htpasswd 
 Note: only some combinations of Format, Encoding and Filename are valid, and fewer are tested 
 

Environment

-- ChunhuaLiao - 13 Oct 2004

Answer

This looks like a bug, Codev.RegisterFailureInsecureDependencyCygwin

-- PeterThoeny - 14 Oct 2004

Dear Mr. Peter, Actually it happens not only on the cygwin environment. I have another instance installed on gentoo Linux. It shows the exactly same error information when registering a new user:

Software error:
Insecure dependency in connect while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux/IO/Socket.pm line 114.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@xxx.com), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. 

Test the environment for TWiki
Please read the TWikiInstallationNotes for more information on TWiki installation. 
Environment variables:
DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki 
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */* 
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate 
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE zh-cn,en-us;q=0.5 
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive 
HTTP_COOKIE hpcwikidbUserID=1; hpcwikidbUserName=Liao; hpcwikidbPassword=d9725c9cef2a830ea7bac94e9f14391f 
HTTP_HOST xxx.com
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 
PATH /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin 
QUERY_STRING  
REMOTE_ADDR 66.90.248.95 
REMOTE_PORT 1720 
REQUEST_METHOD GET 
REQUEST_URI /twiki/bin/testenv 
SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/localhost/twiki/bin/testenv 
SCRIPT_NAME /twiki/bin/testenv 
SERVER_ADDR xxx.xxx.xx.xx
SERVER_ADMIN root@xxx.com
SERVER_NAME xxx.com
SERVER_PORT 80 
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 
SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/2.0.50 (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/4.3.8 Server at xxx.com Port 80 
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.50 (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/4.3.8 
UNIQUE_ID OmfkK4EH@K0AABSBCUEAAAAD 

CGI Setup:
Operating system: Unix (linux) 
Perl version: 5.8.4 
@INC library path: /var/www/localhost/twiki/lib
/etc/perl
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
. 
 Note: This is the Perl library path, used to load TWiki modules, third-party modules used by some plugins, and Perl built-in modules. 
TWiki module in @INC path:  
 OK, TWiki.pm found (TWiki version: 01 Sep 2004 $Rev: 1742 $) 
Required Perl modules:  
 CGI (3.05) 
 CGI::Carp (1.28) 
 File::Copy (2.07) 
 File::Spec (0.84) 
 FileHandle (2.01) 
Optional Perl modules:  
 Algorithm::Diff (1.02) 
 MIME::Base64 (3.01) 
 POSIX (1.08) 
 Encode (1.99_01) 
 Note: Optional module 'Unicode::MapUTF8' not installed - check TWiki documentation to see if your configuration needs this module.  
 Note: Optional module 'Unicode::Map' not installed - check TWiki documentation to see if your configuration needs this module.  
 Note: Optional module 'Unicode::Map8' not installed - check TWiki documentation to see if your configuration needs this module.  
 Note: Optional module 'Jcode' not installed - check TWiki documentation to see if your configuration needs this module.  
 Digest::MD5 (2.33) 
 Note: Optional module 'Digest::SHA1' not installed - check TWiki documentation to see if your configuration needs this module.  
 MIME::Base64 (3.01) 
 Net::SMTP (2.26) 
PATH_INFO:  
 Note: For a URL such as http://xxx.com/twiki/bin/testenv/foo/bar, the correct PATH_INFO is /foo/bar, without any prefixed path components. Test this now - particularly if you are using mod_perl, Apache or IIS, or are using a web hosting provider. The page resulting from the test link should have a PATH_INFO of /foo/bar.  
mod_perl: Not used for this script (mod_perl not loaded into Apache)  
User: apache  
 Note: Your CGI scripts are executing as this user. 
 Warning: Since your CGI script is not running as user nobody, you need to change the locks in the *,v RCS files of the TWiki distribution from nobody to apache. Otherwise, changes to topics will not be logged by RCS.  
 Fix: If needed, relock all the rcs files to user apache 
Group(s): apache apache 

Test of TWiki.cfg Configuration:
$defaultUrlHost: http://xxx.com
 Note: This must match the protocol and host part (with optional port number) of the TWiki URL. 
$scriptUrlPath: /twiki/bin 
 Note: This must match the 'cgi-bin' part of the URL used to access the TWiki cgi-bin directory. 
$pubUrlPath: /twiki/pub 
 Note: This must be the URL of the public directory.This is not set correctly if the /twiki/pub/wikiHome.gif image below is broken:
 
$pubDir: /var/www/localhost/twiki/pub 
 Note: This is the public directory, as seen from the file system. It must correspond to $pubUrlPath. 
$templateDir: /var/www/localhost/twiki/templates 
 Note: This is the TWiki template directory, as seen from the file system.  
$dataDir: /var/www/localhost/twiki/data 
 Note: This is the data directory where TWiki stores all topics. 
$mailProgram: /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oeq 
 Note: This is the mail program TWiki uses to send mail. 
$rcsDir: /usr/bin 
 Note: This is the directory where RCS is located. 
RCS Version: 5.7 
 Note: This is the version of RCS which will be used. 
$lsCmd: /bin/ls 
 Note: This is the file list program TWiki uses to list topics. 
$egrepCmd: /bin/egrep 
 Note: This is a program TWiki uses for search. 
$fgrepCmd: /bin/fgrep 
 Note: This is a program TWiki uses for search. 
$safeEnvPath: /bin:/usr/bin 
 Note: This is used to initialise the PATH variable, and is used to run the 'diff' program used by RCS, as well as to run shell programs such as Bourne shell or 'bash'. 

Path and Shell Environment
Original PATH: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin 
 Note: This is the PATH value passed in from the web server to this script - it is reset by TWiki scripts to the PATH below, and is provided here for comparison purposes only.  
Current PATH: /bin:/usr/bin 
 Note: This is the actual PATH setting that will be used by Perl to run programs. It is normally identical to $safeEnvPath, unless that variable is empty.  
diff: GNU diff was found on the PATH - this is the recommended diff tool. 
 Note: The 'diff' command is used by RCS to compare files.  

User Authentication
htpasswd Format Family: htpasswd 
htpasswd Encoding: crypt 
htpasswd Filename: /var/www/localhost/twiki/data/.htpasswd 
 Note: only some combinations of Format, Encoding and Filename are valid, and fewer are tested 
 

Internationalisation and Locale Setup
$useLocale: 1 
 Note: This TWiki.cfg setting controls whether locales are used by Perl and 'grep'.  
$siteLocale: zh_CN.gb2312 
 Note: This TWiki.cfg parameter sets the site-wide locale - for example, de_AT.ISO-8859-1 where 'de' is the language code, 'AT' the country code and 'ISO-8859-1' is the character set. Use the locale -a command on your system to determine available locales.  
$siteCharset: zh_cn.gb2312 
 Note: This value is derived from the site-wide locale setting. It may have been overridden by $siteCharsetOverride (currently 'zh_CN.gb2312'). It is used in TWiki's HTML pages and HTTP headers, so it must be acceptable to web browsers even if it is different to the locale-derived setting (e.g. 'euc-jp' instead of 'eucjp')  

-- ChunhuaLiao - 14 Oct 2004

I get this same error on a RedHat box. Just wanted to give my 2 cents so the developers know the problem isn't confined to Windows.

-- TWikiGuest - 27 Oct 2004

I'm right now installing Twiki on Debian (testing) and got the exact same error. But if I changed SMTPMAILHOST from localhost to empty within the preferences the error disapperd. /markus

-- WilliamHo - 11 Nov 2004

I am installing Twiki on Fedora core 1 (Apache 1.3.33 & perl 5.8.1)and got the same problem. And thanks to markus, your solution works.

wcho

I faced the same problem as you guies told. Don't really know if that is a bug or something else. My configs are as below: OS= Slackware 10.0 Arch= Intell 915 based server I also had the same problem as above. I did the same thind. Put a blanck on SMTPMAILHOST . and things went normal. May be i do some research to find the why this is happening.

--Sanjay Saha System Administrator sanjayatfreeskills.net