Hello Curtis,
I am just returning a complete html document from the perl file using the following:
(perl in blue, html in red)
Start Perl stuff...
End Perl stuff...
print<<container;
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>base-02.html</title>
</head>
<body>
Content
</body>
</html>
container
Your email suggests I should have a content-type header included in here somewhere...
?
Thanks for your help.
Vance
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.advance-design.co.uk
--- Advance Design - Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> I have written some web pages incorporating Forms and Perl processing on the server.
>Everything
> works fine on my IE 5.5 Browser but when I use the Netscape 4.7 and Opera 5.12
>browsers, the
> HTML sent back from the Perl programme appears as (source) text.
> Do you have any ideas why.
>
> Thanks
> Newer versions of Internet Explorer have a "feature" that examines that beginning of
>the data that
> it receives and attempts to render the data accordingly. It completely violates W3C
>standards by
> ignoring the content-type header. Many, many developers have been bitten by this
>bug. I've
> accidently sent GIFs with a content type of image/pjpeg and IE still rendered it
>correctly but
> Netscape didn't. That was less than fun to debug.
> In your script, find out what is responsible for printing the content-type header
>and post that
> code snippet here. It will be something like the following:
> # If you're doing it by hand, it will resemble this:
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> # If you're using CGI.pm, it will resemble on of the two following lines:
> print header();
> # or (varies depending on the name of the CGI object)
> print $query->header;
> There are many different ways of printing the content-type header, but they will
>likely resemble
> the snippets above. Send that and we may have an answer for you.
> Of course, you can also telnet to port 80 (assuming that's the telnet port) and view
>the headers
> that way). Most likely, you're sending a content type of 'text/plain'. Here's what
>you'd enter
> in telnet:
> GET /cgi-bin/somescript.cgi?foo=bar HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.somehost.com
> Substitute your own host and path and make sure you have two newlines after the host
>header.
> Cheers,
> Curtis Poe
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