Re: Why doesn't the Location header work?

This is an odd thing that I've experienced at times and have found odd things to be the cause. Here are my unsupportable discoveries:

The line of code suggested above and listed below, sometimes resolves the problem:

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

However, sometimes that's not enough and a subtle problem crops up. I have found that the Content-type line needs to be before the line starting html (e.g., before print "<html>").

I have also noticed that if you're constructing your print statement like this:

print qq| <html> |;

I have found that moving the <html> to the live below the print qq| will sometimes solve the problem.

print qq|
<html>

Of course, you really should use CGI perl module and do it thus:

   use CGI qw/:standard/;

   my $q = new CGI;

   print $q->header( -type => 'text/html');
   print $q->start_html;

(Note, I've only included the relevent code above.)

The other oddity I've discovered in the phenomenom of Netscape spewing my html text out with all of its html tags exposed is a configuration problem with httpd.conf file. I've noticed that if the lines below are not commented out, then they will cause the same problem despite my code.

LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mime_magic_modules.so

and

AddModule mod_magic_mime.c

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