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Perl & CGI/cgi html problem

Expert: Marty Landman - 7/10/2009

Question
QUESTION: #!C:activeperl/perl/bin/perl

print <<EndOfHTML;
content-type:text/html
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

</head>
<body>
<h1> hello wor</h1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
EndOfHTML
exit(0);

ANSWER: Try having 2 carriage returns after your first line ie.

content-type:text/html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DT etc..

instead of

content-type:text/html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DT etc..

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QUESTION: thankyou for the repl
yes i did that too. but still teh page doesnt display
it shows error.:(

ANSWER: What is the error? Can you look on the server error log?

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QUESTION: syntax error at D:/Profiles/CHJT87/My Documents/My Website/try.cgi line 8, near "HEAD>", referer: http://localhost/~chjt87/
[Fri Jul 10 12:55:17 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Execution of D:/Profiles/CHJT87/My Documents/My Website/try.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.,

Answer
I'm not sure what the problem might be. But try this instead:

#!C:activeperl/perl/bin/perl

use strict;
my $html = q|
content-type:text/html

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

</head>
<body>
<h1> hello wor</h1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
|;
print $msg;

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