Hi,
I'm having problems with headers. I know there is tons of stuff about
headers in the archives but none that I could find matches my situation.
I have one script blah.cgi
use strict;
print qq(Content-Type: text/html\n\n);
print qq(<html><body>);
print qq(<form method=POST><input type=text name=blah><input type=submit>
</form>);
print qq(</body></html>);
where the output in the browser includes Content-Type: text/html. If I
were to remove the content-type print, the browser tells me that the
document contains no data, not a 500 malformed/premature end of script
headers that I'm familiar with.
I have another script, in the same directory, test.cgi
print "Server's environment<P>\n";
print "<TABLE>";
foreach ( keys %ENV )
{
print "<TR><TD>$_ </TD><TD>$ENV{$_}</TR></TD>";
}
print "</TABLE>";
that never fails to output correctly, despite the fact that I'm not
printing headers. If I add a content-type printout, it goes on to the
browser as well. The difference is that doesn't fail like blah.cgi when
there isn't a header printout.
With telnet I see something similar
for test.cgi
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /test.cgi HTTP/1.0
Server's environment<P>
<TABLE><TR><TD>SERVER_SOFTWARE </TD><TD>Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21
more gobs of HTML.
for blah.cgi with header printout
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /blah.cgi HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/html
<form method=POST><input type=text name=blah><input type=submit></form>
</body></html>Connection closed by foreign host.
for blah.cgi without header printout
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /blah.cgi HTTP/1.0
<html><body><form method=POST><input type=text name=blah><input
type=submit></form></body></html>Connection closed by foreign host.
One might think that I have PerlSendHeader On, but as far as I can tell, I
don't.
www# grep PerlSend httpd.conf
www#
This is my httpd.conf config
<snip..>
### Perl
PerlRequire /usr/local/etc/apache/startup.pl
PerlFreshRestart On
PerlSetupEnv Off
<FilesMatch "\.cgi$">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::RegistryNG->handler
</FilesMatch>
<snip..>
I remember reading some documentation somewhere that PerlSendHeader if off
by default. So I also tried explicitly turning it off by adding that
directive under PerlHandler Apache::Reg..., but the behavior is apparently
the same both via browser and telnet.
Please help. I'm so confused.
r.
