Oh glorious Monks,

I seek wisdom on a script I am working on. I keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error, and it is a very strange error I get from the error_log:

[Tue Aug 10 13:59:26 2004] [error] [client 216.125.160.51] malformed header from script. Bad header=<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><font : /usr/local/httpd/virtuals/elghome/www.elginarea.org/cgi-bin/make2.pl

The code it is bombing on is:

print "Content-type: text/html\n";
#print "<TITLE>B.O.B. Question</TITLE>\n";
print "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\">\n";

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If I didn't comment out the title, it would have bombed there. I have been working on this for days, and I have no resolution. It does what I want, but I need to print out a web confirmation page based on the data.

Your wisdom would be greatly appreciated. If you need anymore code, just ask.

Joseph A. Ruffino
Automated Systems Assistant
Gail Borden Public Library District
270 N. Grove Ave
Elgin, Il, 60120
847-742-2411 x5986

20040811 Janitored by Corion: Put code tags around error message and code, retitled from "Bad Header"

In reply to CGI script "malformed header" error by Midnite

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