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

I'm using CGI::FormBuilder, my constructor includes header => 1, templates => '/path/to/template.html', and I'm getting this error:

malformed header from script. Bad header=<?xml version="1.0" encoding=
+": volunteer.cgi

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Doesn't this mean it is not getting the Content-Type? Shouldn't header being set to 1 generate such an animal? When I add a print $q->header(); to the mix, it resolves the issue. But I would have thought that setting header => 1, in the constructor would do the trick.

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Re: CGI::FormBuilder malformed header
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Feb 19, 2010 at 07:16 UTC
    I borrowed an example from the formbuilder website. They used header => 1 towards the end of the script. It works for me:
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::FormBuilder;

my @fields = qw(name email password confirm_password zipcode);

my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new(
    method   => 'post',
    fields   => \@fields,
    validate => {
        email => 'EMAIL',
        phone => 'PHONE',
    },
    required => 'ALL',
);

if ( $form->submitted ) {
    my $fname = $form->field('first_name');
    $fname    = $form->field('last_name');
    print $form->confirm( header => 1 );
}
else {
    print $form->render( header => 1 );
}

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Re: CGI::FormBuilder malformed header
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 18, 2010 at 23:37 UTC
    That is not code proof
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