>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> use File::Copy;
>> copy "header.incl", \*STDOUT;
Bryan> I like this, it's very clean.
Bryan> Unfortunately I'm having trouble using it in a cgi script...
Bryan> **************************************
Bryan> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
Bryan> use File::Copy;
Bryan> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
Bryan> copy "header.incl", \*STDOUT;
Bryan> print "More stuff goes here\n";
Bryan> **************************************
Ahh. A buffering issue.
Your content-type: is not appearing before the header.incl. You need
to add "$| = 1;" before the print.
That's the reason I start nearly all my CGI scripts with:
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;
$|++;
so that I don't ever have to worry about STDOUT buffering.
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