Hi, I am new to PERL and I am trying to pass a textarea value from a PHP form to a PERL script but I am unable to do so. 
I got this from one friend
<?php 
?> 
<form method="post" action="script.pl"> 
<textarea name="mytextarea">textarea content</textarea> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" /> 
</form>

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perl script 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
use CGI ':standard'; 
 
my $mytextarea = param('mytextarea'); 
 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 
print "$mytextarea";

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but I am getting this 
"Server error! 

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete yo
+ur request. 

Error message: 
Premature end of script headers: *.pl"

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I am using XAMPP on Vista
Can anybody help me on this plz?

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