perldoc is broken

BernieC has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

in the course of *something* I did in messing with trying to get Courriel installed working has broken perldoc. I never really knew how it worked but what I get now is:

D:\www>perldoc -f splice
Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ascii
Content-length: 248

<html>
  <head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><title>Perl docum
+entation</title></head>
  <frameset cols="25%, 75%">
    <frame name="tocFrame"     src="/toc">
    <frame name="contentFrame" src="/perl">
  </frameset>
</html>
[download]

I cannot imagine what/how I broke it. I must've deleted something it needed by mistake.. my perl directory is backed up, so I can restore it if i/we/y'all can figure out what is missing THANKS

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Re: perldoc is broken by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2022 at 16:29 UTC
First, I would look at which `perldoc` program is actually run: `which perldoc` [download] Something, somewhere maybe installed a program with the same name that is supposed to run as CGI... As a second step, look at `%ENV` - maybe `perldoc` behaves as CGI if some HTTP environment headers are set. Anything starting with `HTTP_` is suspect. Under Windows, you can see `%ENV` using the `set` command.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: perldoc is broken by LanX (Saint) on Jan 11, 2022 at 17:59 UTC
> `which perldoc` `which perl` too! > %ENV ... Anything starting with HTTP_ is suspect. Also `%PERLDOC%` perldoc has options to switch the backend with -o , it will also react on various `%*PAGER%` settings. see https://perldoc.perl.org/perldoc#ENVIRONMENT Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: perldoc is broken by BernieC (Pilgrim) on Jan 11, 2022 at 17:59 UTC
Thanks for the advice. It seemed to be OK and so something subtle must've been screwed up, so I took the coward's way out: I restored the entire c:\Strawberry hierarchy from the backup of a few days ago and the problem has gone away. The joy of backups.	[reply]
Re^3: perldoc is broken by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 12, 2022 at 15:23 UTC
The joy of backups. Indeed, but if it happens again, and is convenient to debug please post again.	[reply]