cgi help - html wont format!

ROB posted this at 05:58 — 9th November 2000.

Joined: Oct 1999

i have a very long subroutine, actually its a subroutine that includes a long script, and for some reason after i call it html will no longer format, it is just displayed in the browser as html. heres what i mean...

# do stuff here then call the subroutine

$this = &That(@whatever);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print qq(
<h2>The Result is: $this</h2>
);

the browser prints the html tags literally instead of formatting them. something happens within &That that is causing this (if i comment out '&That(@whatever);' the browser DOES format the html) but im not sure what. I remember encountering this a couple of years ago but i dont remember the solution.

The script included in &That returns 1, i thought that may have something to do with it but without it i get a comp err.

Any help would be appreciated. Ive spent 6 hours on this already, i guess ill get some sleep for once and hope someone knows whats wrong.

Mark Hensler posted this at 08:16 — 9th November 2000.

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I've had this problem before as well.... and forgot too.

can we see more of the code? (like whats in &That()

anti posted this at 11:11 — 9th November 2000.

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I'm sure "that" has some output.
Always print the "Content-Type: ...." first.
Otherwise the server won't take it as the mime-type.

ROB posted this at 04:25 — 10th November 2000.

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anti, you were correct. &That was indeed printing something. i had put a line that simply printed a '1' for debugging earlier and i forgot about it i figured it out by following your suggestion of printing the header before calling &That to see what was being printed. Thanks for the help.

Mark Hensler posted this at 04:49 — 10th November 2000.

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