I've been playing with a script that jeffa wrote, CGI mailto via code reuse (AKA the CPAN). And I can't seem to get it to work. The script is identical to what jeffa wrote, with the exception of changing the email addresses. But running this through Apache 1.3.28 I keep getting "premature end of headers" in my error.log.

I've tried adding a $|++; with no change in results. When I run this from the command line I'm getting HTML output. Suggestions more than welcome.

The output of the script from the command line: 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S"><head><title>The Form</title>
</head><body>
<form method="post" action="/mail_it.cgi" enctype="application/x-www-f
+orm-urlencoded">
name: <input type="text" name="name"  /><br />
email: <input type="text" name="email"  /><br />
address1: <input type="text" name="address1"  /><br />
address2: <input type="text" name="address2"  /><br />
city: <input type="text" name="city"  /><br />
state: <input type="text" name="state"  /><br />
zip: <input type="text" name="zip"  /><br />
homephone: <input type="text" name="homephone"  /><br />
workphone: <input type="text" name="workphone"  /><br />
business: <input type="text" name="business"  /><br />
goals: <input type="text" name="goals"  /><br />
comments: <input type="text" name="comments"  /><br />
<input type="submit" name="mail_it" value="mail_it" /><div></div></for
+m></body></html>

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Everything appears to be working correctly. But either Apache doesn't like this, or the CGI header isn't working like I'd expect.

While I think this is probably an Apache problem, I'm not clear enough on my CGI to be able to point definitively to it. Note that I have successfully created other CGI scripts without this problem. So it seems that CGI is horking on complicated scripts but working fine for straightforward scripts.

What am I overlooking? Which M should I be RTFing?

In reply to CGI Header problem/question by Nkuvu

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