Question

I am having a strange problem, maybe something to do with Apache more than Perl. In my code when I write:

print "content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

it prints that along with the code. But when I type:

$c = new CGI; $c->header(); 

it works fine and displays the HTML rendered output.

What could the problem be?

Thank you

Answer 1

Keep in mind, HTTP RFC specifies that

\r\n

is used for line delimiters, not

\n

so you want to be emitting

print "Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

Instead.

You should just use ->headers though to do this for you.

Also, note I used Camel-Case instead of lower-case. Although both should work, the Camel-Case is the notation used in the spec, so that is preferred and more likely to work on weird UA’s.