Hello...

I'm running into a 500 error with a simple CGI.pm based script and I can't seem to resolve it.

#/user/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI ':all';
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
$| = 1;

print header(), 
      start_html('Test'),
      'Hello, World!', 
      end_html();

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Here's the form I'm using to invoke it. 

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Test</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>Click me:<BR>
  <form action="/cgi-bin/hello.cgi" method="POST">
    <input type="Submit" NAME="submit" Value="Do-it!">
  </form>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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When run from my telnet window, it runs fine, producing this output: 

> perl -wT hello.cgi ''
Content-Type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Test</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>Hello, World!</BODY></HTML>

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This look right to me; however, when called from my sample form, I get a server 500 error. There is only one line added to the error log: Premature end of script headers: /home/mypath/cgi-bin/hello.cgi

I have checked permissons (755) on the script and the parent directories. Perl 5.05.003, Apache 1.3.12; FreeBSD 4.0; CGI.pm version unknown;

I'm out of ideas; either I'm, like, incredibly lame or something else is wrong. Please help.

Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura

In reply to Premature Error using CGI.pm by ZydecoSue

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