There's text/plain if you just want to return a text document. Other file types include image/png.

The Content-type header takes a MIME type. There's a list of many of those at Wikipedia. Many of those are valid and understood as document types by popular web browsers. Some require external applications be triggered for rendering. A few of them are more appropriate to other uses such as documents being sent back to the web server or messages parsed by email clients.

There are also XMLHTTPRequest and related methods for JavaScript. If you want to just return a notification in the current page, you could return plaintext, HTML, JSON, or XML (or, indeed, other things) and update the current page using JavaScript to show the results. Libraries like jQuery make this simple.

In reply to Re: Non-CGI perl scripts on a web server? by mr_mischief
in thread Non-CGI perl scripts on a web server? by Amblikai

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