Aaah! I feel incredibly foolish! And I apologize for wasting the time of you good people here.
I watched Internet explorer download the file and saw that the filename corresponded with my script name. When I tried to open it from the download option, it opened a command window that promptly closed. I assumed it was my original perl script trying to execute and falling over. I NEVER actually opened the file to look what it was! I assumed that because it was named *.pl it was a perl file. I had also seen an entry in my Apache logs where it looked as if someone had got a .pl file sent to them. Reminds me of a boss I once had; he said "never ass-u-me anything; if you do it might make and 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'". Well, it's certainly caught me this time. I had just created a test file, that returns WML, to publish at http://www.activitae.com/perl/modPerlTest.pl?param=Hello%20World and saw it download. I ran it; and, as before, the command window came and went. I thought double check Angela before you make a fool of yourself... and bingo the file is wml text! Sorry everyone; I'll crawl away and die now. Kind regards PS For those vary of links, modPerlTest.pl referred to above contains #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI::WML; my $query = CGI::WML->new(); my $param=$query->param('param'); my $text="You sent $param<br/><br/>"; $text.="How now brown cow eating the cool green grass.<br/><br/>"; $text.="Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper."; my $content=$query->p($text); print #$query->header(-cache_control=>'No-cache; forua=true'), $query->header(), $query->start_wml(), $query->template(-content=>$query->prev()), $query->card(-id=>"test card", -title=>"Test WAP Card", -content=>$content), $query->end_wml(); Angela --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.528 / Virus Database: 324 - Release Date: 16/10/2003
