in reply to Strange behavior of POD online renderer https://metacpan.org/pod2html

Works fine when using pod2html from the command line.

Maybe some kind of attack detection is running amok?

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Re^2: Strange behavior of POD online renderer https://metacpan.org/pod2html
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 19, 2026 at 17:17 UTC

    pod2html reports errors by including something akin to the following in the output:

    <h1 id="POD-ERRORS">POD ERRORS</h1> <p>Hey! <b>The above document had some coding errors, which are explai +ned below:</b></p> <dl> <dt id="Around-line-16">Around line 16:</dt> <dd> <p>Unterminated C&lt;...&gt; sequence</p>

    MetaCPAN's handler for the pod2html web tool parses the generated output to extract this. Another possibility is a that this goes awry.