O Monks,

This is not strictly a perl question, so maybe a little OT here, but any responses would be much appreciated. I have a perl CGI script that converts certain types of Word documents to plain text: http://tetragonsf.com/cgi-bin/convert_word1.cgi . The CGI at this address has a form with a file upload interface, and when you've done your upload, it hands off that file to a second CGI script, which does the conversion and outputs the plain text. The output code in the second script is basically this: 

print <<'HEADER';
Content-type: text/plain


HEADER

print $txt;

[download]

This all works fine, except for one strange thing. If I try to do a "Save Page As" in firefox, it creates the file, but the file only contains a single newline. Anyone have any idea why this would not work properly? Is this something I'm not understanding properly about CGI, or something weird about firefox, or ...?

TIA!

-Ben

In reply to CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?" by bcrowell2

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