Hello wise monks, I seek your guidance and wisdom to overcome a wall that I have hit. I am running Perl v.5.12.4 on Mac OS X. My problem is I am creating a script that is accessed via a browser (Safari) that will create and download a CSV file. When I run the script locally, the content of the file is being displayed on the page, and not being downloaded. I have searched high and low, and used the correct headers (as far as I can tell). To troubleshoot, I wanted to see if the browser is accepting any headers, and therefore tested this script (contains no download, just output HTML to the browser):

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head>";
print "<title>CGI Test</title>";
print "</head>";
print "<body><h2>I just wrote a web page using Perl!</h2>";
print "</body></html>"

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The result -- the following is printed on the browser page:

Content-type: text/html

<html><head><title>CGI Test</title></head><body><h2>I just wrote a web
+ page using Perl!</h2></body></html>

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It seems that no matter what headers I try, the result is the same -- it is printed to the web page. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to solve this, and therefore graciously request your wisdom. Thank you.

In reply to Print to Browser Headers Not Working by Loops303

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