The script you posted doesn't send anything to the standard output, therefore you get an error when you browse it. Try the following variation: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
$doc = $q->start_html('hello world');
$doc .= $q->h1('hello world');
$doc .= $q->end_html;

open(OUT, '>out.html') || die "Couldn't open out file: $!";
print OUT $doc;
close OUT;

print $q->header();
print $doc;

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This sends the HTML code both to out.html and to the standard output (that it to say, to the web browser).

The HTTP header (print $q->header()) is needed when outputting to the standard output via CGI, but you can (and maybe you'd better) not send it to the file you create. The example above works this way: the header is only sent to the browser, and the HTML file is sent both to the browser and to the file.

Michele.

In reply to Re: CGI http header error by arthas
in thread CGI http header error by martymart

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