quick help for dumb problem

Ken Elliott posted this at 04:10 — 18th June 2000.

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You have to print that before everything you print. If you plan on printing multiple times from the same script, put it in a subroutine.

sub mime {
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
}

Then when you want to use it just use

&mime;

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minton posted this at 04:13 — 18th June 2000.

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ok, thanks Vulken

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 04:35 — 18th June 2000.

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Actually, I beleive that you only need to print out the html header one time. If you use "print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";" a second time, it will actually print "Content-type:text/html".

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minton posted this at 10:16 — 18th June 2000.

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Ok, I am learning perl and made a script to calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 12.5. The code is:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$pi = 3.121592654;
$result = 2 * $pi * 12.5;
print "radius 12.5 is circumference $result\n";

I uploaded it and it comes back with a internal server error 500. I chmoded to 777, 755 and the folder it is in to 777 and 755.

I do not know why such a simple script wont work. I thihnk it worked offline. I was using perl for windowws but I still dont know how to use it so I just double clicked on the file and when the window came up for about a tenth of a sec I slammed on pause break and the answer ws correcy.

Could someopne tell nme why I get this error.

Thanks

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 11:24 — 18th June 2000.

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Before printing the answer,
add
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

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minton posted this at 12:24 — 18th June 2000.

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Thanks! it worked. I was under the impression that that was only for programs with a cgi extension. Don't know where I picked that up from.

One thing though, Do I have to put that code at the bginning of each print or jyst once and then the perl will kow that all things with print in need to be text/html?

Thanks for your help.