Content-type: text/html\n\n

crmpicco · October 18th, 2006, 12:18 PM

Code:

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

When writing a Perl script for web-based usage is the above line required all the time? If so, is it a replacement for the classic <html> tag????

Picco

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ciderpunx · October 24th, 2006, 07:01 AM

No - what you're doing is just a part of the HTTP, normally handled silently by your webserver. With html pages, your webserver inserts the http headers automatically. You could use something like CGI.pm or HTML ::Template to generate pages in different ways without having to print the headers yourself.

Here is the spec for HTTP 1:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

HTH
Charlie

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crmpicco · November 13th, 2006, 11:09 AM

thanks Charlie, worked great!

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