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Re: CGI Random Quote Server

by quidity (Pilgrim)
on Dec 02, 2000 at 23:08 UTC ( [id://44578]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to CGI Random Quote Server

Just being picky here but...

use CGI;

But you didn't.

$/ = "\n";

All very well, but $/ will be this anyway, most people use "\n%%\n" as their cookie file delimiter so they can format them to 76 chars/line or whatever so as to fit them in emails as well.

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

But you're printing out a badly formed html document unless each and every cookie starts <html> etc...

A better solution would be:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;

my $output;
my $data = '/path/to/cookies.txt';

my $query = CGI::new();
open COOKIES, "<$data" or die "Cannot open cookie file: $!";
$/ = "\n%%\n";
rand($.) < 1 && ($output = $_) while <COOKIES>;

# for plain text:
print $query->header('text/plain');
print $output;

# or for html
print $query->header('text/html');
print $query->start_html('Cookies');
print $output;
print $query->end_html;

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