It only displays text in Netscape 1

makuk · Mar 28, 2002

Hi

My script works perfectly well in Opera and Explorer but when run in Netscape it just displays the pages source text on the screen.

I have tried everything I know to do including:

deleting and re-uploading files
renaming .cgi to .pl
and beating my dog

Please if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mark.

makuk · Mar 28, 2002

I sorted it thanks.

Even though none of you knew what it was. Argh, see you're not that good are you. Had you all stumped.

LOL

MAWarGod · Mar 28, 2002

May I ask how You did It?

makuk · Mar 28, 2002

You may yes.

This line appears:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

And as I only test in IE I removed Content-type: text/html
leaving:

print "\n\n";

Unfortunately as Netscape is soooooo thick it needs this line to display the html.

YOU ASK: Why did you remove this.
ANSWER: because the words Content-type: text/html appear in my page and I don't want them there, so I removed them.

Unfortunately, as above, netscape doesn't like that.

So... I got it working in netscape as well now but I have that horrible text on my screen. So, I just gotta work out how to sort that out now.

Unfortunately, I have only played with PERL for 2 weeks and I don't really have a clue what I am doing. !!

So, if anyone knows how to remove that line and it still displaying in Netscape it would be a great help.

Cya

Makuk

MAWarGod · Mar 28, 2002

<META content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'
?????????????

MAWarGod · Mar 28, 2002

print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Your page</TITLE><META content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' http-equiv=Content-Type><META content='MSHTML 5.00.2920.0' name=GENERATOR></HEAD><BODY aLink=#000000 bgColor=#000000 link=#c0c0c0 text=#ffffff vLink=#ffff00 background='background.jpg'>

makuk · Mar 28, 2002

It is used in this context:

# Print the HTML header
sub print_header {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open (HEADER,"$basepath/$header&quot

|| print "Could not open $basepath/$header $! \n";
while (<HEADER>) {
print $_;
}
close(HEADER);

Any ideas what I would do here please.

Thanks

Makuk

MAWarGod · Mar 28, 2002

My best guess becuze I am not fully understanding is
to use something like
print qq!
or

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Users Online Now</TITLE><META content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' http-equiv=Content-Type><META content='MSHTML 5.00.2920.0' name=GENERATOR></HEAD><BODY aLink=#000000 bgColor=#000000 link=#c0c0c0 text=#ffffff vLink=#ffff00 background='back.jpg'><CENTER><IMG src='

http://www.realgoreanworld.com/images/RGW_banner.jpg'><BR><IMG

border=0 height=80 src='

http://www.realgoreanworld.com/images/whochat.jpg'

width=366><br>\n";
is how I do it

MAWarGod · Mar 28, 2002

#######################################################################
sub PrintKop {
open(HEAD,"my.head&quot

|| die print "$MESS{'IO_ERROR'} (my.head)";
foreach (<HEAD>) { print $_ }
close (HEAD);
}

#######################################################################
sub PrintStaart {
open(HEAD,"my.foot&quot

|| die print "$MESS{'IO_ERROR'} (my.foot)";
foreach (<HEAD>) { print $_ }
close (HEAD);
}

#######################################################################
my.head would be
sub print_header {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open (HEADER,"$basepath/$header&quot

|| print "Could not open $basepath/$header $! \n";
while (<HEADER>) {
print $_;
}
close(HEADER);

goBoating · Mar 30, 2002

There are some simple examples of CGI stuff in the faqs section of the CGI forum.

Code:

#!/usr/local/perl
print &quot;Content-type: text/html\n\n&quot;;
print &quot;<html><head><title>simplest cgi</title>
    </head>
    <body><p>This works in any browser</p>
    </body></html>&quot;;

That should work in just about any browser. If you are seeing the 'content-type' line in a browser, you are probably printing it twice or you are printing something else first.
'hope this helps

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