Re^2: Non-CGI perl scripts on a web server?

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Re^3: Non-CGI perl scripts on a web server? by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 23, 2015 at 13:50 UTC
Every request to a HTTP server is supposed to return something. There is no empty reply. If there really is "nothing" to return, consider either outputting a redirect: `Status: 302 Location: http://somewhere.example.com/` [download] ... or alternatively, outputting a page that says "Request submitted, thank you.".	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Non-CGI perl scripts on a web server? by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Feb 23, 2015 at 13:55 UTC
Thanks for your reply, so if there's nothing being returned to the browser i don't need the line at all? If you don't mind the browser possibly displaying a `"500" Internal Server Error` and a `"404" Not found` in return, you don't. A simple way of stopping it from doing that may be a `print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";` to deliver back an empty text document. Cheers, Sören Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere. (hooked on the Perl Programming language)	[reply] [d/l]