Not sure how to say this without sounding as if I am nitpicking an otherwise great post (++), but ah well, I feel bold.

I just would like to point out that while "Content-type: text/html\n\n" works often, if you are gonna do that instead of useing CGI, you should really end the lines with double "\015\012" instead, like this:print "Content-type: text/html\015\012\015\012";.

This is more cross-platform, and would work on most machines, except (I think ) VMS and non-ASCII machines. "\015\012" is the defined CRLF sequence for HTTP-headers.

In reality though, I think that it is just as good to get into the habit of useing the CGI module right away. Just like you say. It takes care of all such concerns. :)

In reply to Re: (Ovid) Re: Apache+cgi problem by Dog and Pony
in thread Apache+cgi problem by RuneK

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