If I was missing the "Content-type: text/html" line, then my web browser would not display anything except the "500: Internal Server Error" line, wouldn't it?
My error logs say: [Mon Apr 16 10:24:07 2007] [error] [client 149.155.42.148] malformed header from script. Bad header=<head>: contigview [Mon Apr 16 10:24:07 2007] [warn] /perl/Gallus_gallus/contigview did not send an HTTP header OK, I can accept it may be the HTTP header that is not coming through, but would that explain why my HTML header doesn't come through? What about the special characters? I'll get Firefox now.. :) Thanks Mick -----Original Message----- From: Clinton Gormley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2007 10:28 To: michael watson (IAH-C) Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: RE: Malformed header from script > r is Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x98d2108) > I was given '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 > Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en-gb" > lang="en-gb"> > <head> > ' > > So, the perl code is using an Apache2::RequestRec object to print out > the header, and I am using a simple 'print STDERR' statement to print > out the same thing to the error log. My 'print STDERR' statement works > fine and the header gets printed to the apache error log. However, my > web page DOES NOT have an HTML header: It is not an HTML header that is lacking, but an HTTP header - your web browser has no idea what type of page you are sending it. At the very least, you need: -------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html -------------------------------- (not the dashed lines, but the bits in between _ a content-type header plus a new line to separate the headers from the content itself. You'll find debugging a whole lot easier if you use Firefox with an add-on like Firebug - it gives you much more information about what is going on behind the scenes. Clint
