have you got a script you can give me an example of, after a day at college with VB and PHP, Perl comes slowly! :)
On Monday 11 Mar 2002 5:26 pm, Hanson, Robert wrote: > Here is the short story... > > 1. All HTTP messages have a header and a body section. The header > includes content type (HTML, text, GIF, etc), the length of the content, > login info, etc, etc. The body contains the actual data. > > 2. The head and body sections are seperated by a blank line. > > 3. You need to print the "Content-type" header line, plus a blank line > (to denote the end of the head section) before printing any HTML, text, > or other data. > > Example: > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > # print the body stuff here. > > The only requirement is that you print out the content type plus a blank > line before printing anything else. The content type is the MIME type. > Common MIME types are "text/html" for HTML and "text/plain" for text. > > Hope that helps. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: html in a cgi script > > > I am just starting to learn perl and am reading about cgi.pm > I have read about creating an appropriate header and using the start_html > line, but can someone please give me an example of their html inside a > script? > > TIA -- Matthew Harrison Internet/Network Services Administrator Peanut-Butter Cheesecake Hosting Services Genstate www.peanutbuttercheesecake.co.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]