What will you be previewing with? There are plenty of programs/modules that convert HTML to other formats (PDF::FromHTML) but you need to supply more info (and code) about what you're trying to accomplish.

It's very basic HTML code, maybe an img tag, and a few link tags but I would like to have Perl display the HTML 'somehow' without previewing it in a browser if possible. I see that there are a few cryptic browsers built with Perl that might work. Thanks

Some word processing programs, e.g., OpenOffice Writer or MS Word, can render HTML. Searching through CPAN, I found Mail::LMLM::Render::HTML, which may be do what you want.

What do you mean preview? You could look at it with a text editor. You could strip the mark up and just look at the text. You could write an HTML viewer using something like Tk, but then you start crossing the line into browser territory. You could leverage IE or Firefox to render the HTML for you "under the hood" - is that using a browser? You could open the HTML directly with something like Firefox, but then you really are using a browser.

Yes, the question is silly. Is is silly because it doesn't provide enough context. A good answer needs the question to say why you want to do that and why you can't just use a browser.

$telnet google.com 80
>Trying 64.233.187.99...
>Connected to google.com.
>Escape character is '^]'.

GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1

>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Cache-Control: private
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>Server: GWS/2.1
>Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:01:48 GMT
>Set-Cookie: >PREF=ID=b52be41e5ad2eb1b:TM=1181163708:LM=1181163708:S=Y
+1L>Lo7leE_1XL
>0KD; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; >domain=.google.c
+om
>Connection: Keep-Alive
...
#Here is the dump of the HTML that I don't want to paste.
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CGI has a debug method you can use from the command line

Just run your script like you would any other perl script and append your form values after the perl file name and it will spit out the script's output.

I probably don't understand the question.

guinex

Oh you said to display HTML code? You mean raw HTML tags? I would do what Grundle suggests. And LWP::Simple::getprint() would give you similiar result.

Now, having said that, I've probably broken some of brian's Guide to Answering Questions :-)

You should start a new thread with a fresh question probably. This thread is very old. That said, what I tend to do is this–

cd /path/with/my/html/
plackup -p 8080 -MPlack::App::Directory -e 'Plack::App::Directory->new
+->to_app'
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Then images and HTML from that root can be used/previewed at http://localhost:8080/ or equivalent for your box. You can use Plack::Builder to do much more but that’s a good starter. More reading: Plack, Plack::App::Directory. If it’s not enough, come back with a fresh question; c.f., one not continuing this thread from 2007. :P Good luck

Why doesn't your browser function without Internet access?

All browsers that I have used are perfectly capable of viewing local HTML files (or connecting to an HTTP server running on localhost) without Internet access.

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