[H-GEN] CGI Troubles.

[Brent Wesley]

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Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:27:08PM +1000, Brent Wesley wrote:
>
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> >
> > use strict;
> > use CGI qw(:standard);
> >
> > my $page = new CGI();
> > print $page->header;
> >
> > $page->start_html('Hello World');
>
> That's a no-op.
>
> > print "Hello World!\n";
> >
> > $page->end_html;
>
> And so is this.
>
> The CGI object returned by new() knows nothing about the business end
> of the connection; to have it send HTML back to the client you have to
> do something more like this:
>
>   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>   use strict;
>   use CGI qw/:standard/;
>
>   my $page = CGI->new; # Indirect object syntax sucks
>
>   print $page->header,
>     $page->start_html('Hello World'),
>     'Hello World!',
>     $page->end_html;
>
> Your script ends up being broken because it says the content-type is
> text/html but the content sent back doesn't contain a single HTML tag.
>

Works fine for me. I have also check in The official guide to programming with
cgi.pm by Lincoln Stein and it also does it that way. :p

>
> > Have Fun.
>
> I am.  Thanks.
>

 Good I'm glad to hear it.


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Brent Wesley
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