You've got the basic idea on how to open up a file and print out its contents to the client. I don't understand how HTTP:: or LWP:: modules would help you with this. I see that you named the file handle HEAD, so does this mean that the file only contains the HTTP headers to be sent out??

Anyhow, you can do the following to print out the entire contents of a file to the client: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

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

open HEAD, 'file.txt'
 or die "Could not open file.txt: $!";

print while <HEAD>;

close HEAD;

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Hrmm... 5.006 does support warnings, strict, $! for error, and file handles, right? {grin}

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In reply to Re: Different ways of including files in a CGI Script by Coruscate
in thread Different ways of including files in a CGI Script by shirkdog_perl

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