I am using Activestate perl on XP Pro with IIS 5 using Perlis.dll.

A perl script as simple as :

print "Location: http://www.microsoft.com\n\n";

prints on my screen, instead of forcing forwarding. This is because I am getting a "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 \n\n" line before it.
Here is a more monkish program and it's results:
use strict; 
use CGI; 
my $page = new CGI; 
my $msg = "Hello from ActivePerl CGI!"; 
# print header and start the markup output 
print $page->header( "text/html" ),
$page->start_html( $msg ); 
print $page->h2($msg); 
print $page->end_html; 
# end code

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This prints:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hello from ActivePerl CGI!

Needless to say, this stops cookies from working (they print instead), and so on. I have deleted IIS, reinstalled it and reinstalled perl, and it still does this annoying brain dead thing.

It all started when I deleted and reset the IIS configuration setting. There doesn't seem to be any setting I can find anywhere in IIS that causes or affects this, though it obviously started then. Searching around the net, I located some comments about a registry setting in Activestate that always prints headers, but the keys doesn't exist, and if I create them, it does nothing.

Any ideas?
fred.b@mitsi.com

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