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in thread How to send a "true" 404 error via Perl

The linked case has two problems. The status header didn't come first, and "Status" was misspelled as "status".

What's your script? Better yet, did you try mine? (Since yours is hardly a minimal test with 692 bytes of content.)

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Re^4: How to send a "true" 404 error via Perl
by lokiloki (Beadle) on Jan 17, 2007 at 23:13 UTC
    Yes, I just tried yours:

    [server]$ pico test.cgi
[server]$ chmod 755 test.cgi
[server]$ grep -i test.cgi ~/logs/domain.com/http/access.log
xx.xx.xx.xx- - [17/Jan/2007:15:11:50 -0800] "GET /test.cgi HTTP/1.1" 2
+00 372 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.
+1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1"

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    It still gives me a non-404 error in the log (while the browser does display a 404 error page).

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      That log entry is not for my script, since my script doesn't send 372 bytes of content.
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        Well, don't know what to say, but it is your script... 
        [server]$ cat test.cgi
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Status: 404 Not Found\n";
print "Content-Type: text/html\n";
print "\n";
print "<title>404 Not Found</title>\n";
print "<h1>404 Not Found</h1>\n";
[server]$

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