perl-script vs. cgi-script and malformed header from script. Bad header=</font> : bopper.mcgi

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

Dear wise Monks

I have some very old mod_perl 1.0 code (perl 5.6.1) that runs under Apache 1.0 no problem. But when I run this code under mod_perl 2.0 I get this error:

malformed header from script. Bad header=</font> : bopper.mcgi
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I can get the code to run if I change my httpd.conf Files directive so that it is cgi-script but I would like to have the improved performance of running in mod_perl with perl-script.

Is there something I need to do with the $cgi->header() calls or something?

Thanks

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Re: perl-script vs. cgi-script and malformed header from script. Bad header=</font> : bopper.mcgi by zwon (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2009 at 22:02 UTC
What is the version of CGI.pm? It should be at least 3.11. Also a little snippet to reproduce the problem would be helpfull.	[reply]
Re: perl-script vs. cgi-script and malformed header from script. Bad header=</font> : bopper.mcgi by desemondo (Hermit) on Dec 16, 2009 at 22:03 UTC
You'll likely get more meaningful responses if you include a small snippit of code that produces the issue... otherwise any responses you get will be just speculative...	[reply]
Re: perl-script vs. cgi-script and malformed header from script. Bad header=</font> : bopper.mcgi by Anonymous Monk on Dec 17, 2009 at 03:58 UTC
look for the source of the `</font>` tag, thats where your problem is	[reply] [d/l]
Re: perl-script vs. cgi-script and malformed header from script. Bad header=</font> : bopper.mcgi by Plankton (Vicar) on Dec 17, 2009 at 23:24 UTC
I figure out what my problem was. I needed to remove the ... `PerlOptions +ParseHeaders` [download] ... in my apache conf. `<Files *.mcgi> SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +GlobalRequest Options +ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Files>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]