[Gllug] perl & cgi glitches

Sun Dec 23 11:49:00 UTC 2001

Dean S Wilson wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Wood" <rob at empathymp3.co.uk>
>
>>How about also adding the line
>>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>>
>
>That should do it, he must have nph turned on on the machine he's
>developing with if it doesn't kick out a problem on that.
>
>><SNIP>
>>
>>>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>>>
>use strict; ;)
>
>>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>>
Thanks this did help.

I should also mention that the other problem was that there were M$ Dos 
line endings on some of the lines.  This did not show up on the default 
settings in vi on Red Hat 7.2.  I am going to investigate this further 
because I want to be absolutely sure.  It does seem very strange 
behaviour if it is the case (strange enough to waste combined hours 
looking for an obvious problem!)

The chap writing the web page was using winscp to transfer the site and 
hence these errors crept in.

Thanks for the help.

Xander

>
>>>print "<HTML>";
>>>print "<HEAD>";
>>>print " <TITLE>test</TITLE>";
>>>print "</HEAD>";
>>>print " <BODY TEXT = BLUE BGCOLOR = WHITE>";
>>>print " Test perl scripts";
>>>print "</BODY> </HTML>";
>>>
>></SNIP>
>>
>
>And maybe mention heredocs to him before he goes insane :)
>
>    Dean
>--
>Profanity is the one language all programmers understand.
>   ---  Anon
>
>

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