Fellow monks,

I encountered a strange problem while writing a CGI script for a site I'm developing. Here's the scoop: 

print header,

  start_html (-title => 'Welcome to 0.0.0.0!',
              Link ({-rel => 'stylesheet', type => 'text/css', href =>
+ 'style.css'}),
              base ({-href => 'http://0.0.0.0/cgi-bin/dir/'}),
             ),

  body ({-vlink => 'black'})

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The preceeding causes the proceeding: 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><title>T
+he POSIX Network</title>
</head><body <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /
+>="&lt;base href=&quot;http://skeptical.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/posixnet/&q
+uot; /&gt;"><body vlink="black" />,

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As you can see, it appears as the opening body tag is not being closed, and the tag delimters are converted into their counter-equivalent (whatever that means) [&lt;, &gt;, &quot;]

Any explanation of what is going on will be helpful.

Regards,
Dusk

In reply to CGI.pm idiosyncrasy? by dusk

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