CGI 401 Response

SrFabio has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone, as you can see i'm new here and also new to CGI scripting. So, what i'm doing is reading "Begining with Perl" which i found to be excelent, but i'm stuck right now in one exemple. Here i go: i have this code:

    

#!/usr/bin/perl 
# 401response.pl 
 
use warnings; 
use strict; 
use CGI; 
 
my $cgi = new CGI; 
 
print $cgi->header('type text/html','401 Authorization Required!');
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I just want to know why the browser shows nothing. Error log is clear, access log says this:

    

127.0.0.1 - - [15/Jul/2009:01:01:53 +0000] "GET /cgi-bin/401response.p
+l HTTP/1.1" 401 -
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Does anyone knows what could be the problem? Shouldnt my browser show the error i've putted on header() ? (i've tested with 2 browsers). Thank you ;)

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Re: CGI 401 Response by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 15, 2009 at 01:47 UTC
Note that `'type text/html'` should be `'text/html'`. Your browser received a 401 as shown by the access log. I'm not sure exactly what you expect your browser to show. You say there's a html body, but you send nothing. My browser happily displays that empty HTML doc	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CGI 401 Response by SrFabio (Initiate) on Jul 15, 2009 at 02:40 UTC
Hum..i was expecting the browser to show the error like it shows when a page is not found 404 - Not Found..i was expecting something like that. Thank you ;)	[reply]
Re^3: CGI 401 Response by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 15, 2009 at 05:10 UTC
The browser displays whatever you tell it to display. If you want to it to display such a page, you need to send it such a page.	[reply]
Re^4: CGI 401 Response by SrFabio (Initiate) on Jul 15, 2009 at 11:52 UTC
Re: CGI 401 Response by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2009 at 06:26 UTC
`use warnings; use strict; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; print $cgi->header('type text/html','401 Authorization Required!'); __END__ Status: 401 Authorization Required! Content-Type: type text/html` [download] Never heard of "type text/html" :)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: CGI 401 Response by SrFabio (Initiate) on Jul 15, 2009 at 11:50 UTC
Oh that "type text/html" was to be -type "text/html" ..i was trying the thing with named args and forgot to correct that one lol. Thank you for replying ;)	[reply]