Hello All I am having problems with the wrong content-type being sent in the HTTP Header as "Content-Type: text/plain". I have tried various different sample scripts such the hellworld one listed below: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# hello.pl -- my first perl script!
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world!\n";

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When i preview the script in a browser I can see that the content-type is being added to the body of the page. I have pasted the packet capatured 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:42:52 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)

Connection: close

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/plain



--------- HTTP Content

Content-type: text/html

Hello, world!


---------- HTTP Content

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I think this is probabily a configuration settings gone wrong, I am using perl v5.8.8 on Centos 5 with mod_perl. I am also trying to use the rss2cicsco script (found here http://dontpokebadgers.com/RSS2Cisco/) and getting the same results with each page having the content-type being added to the body of the http packet. THanks for any help James

In reply to Perl keeps sending wrong content-type by jam3s

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