Perl keeps sending wrong content-type

jam3s has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello All I am having problems with the wrong content-type being sent in the HTTP Header as "Content-Type: text/plain". I have tried various different sample scripts such the hellworld one listed below:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# hello.pl -- my first perl script!
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world!\n";
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When i preview the script in a browser I can see that the content-type is being added to the body of the page. I have pasted the packet capatured

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:42:52 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)

Connection: close

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/plain



--------- HTTP Content

Content-type: text/html

Hello, world!


---------- HTTP Content
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I think this is probabily a configuration settings gone wrong, I am using perl v5.8.8 on Centos 5 with mod_perl. I am also trying to use the rss2cicsco script (found here http://dontpokebadgers.com/RSS2Cisco/) and getting the same results with each page having the content-type being added to the body of the http packet. THanks for any help James

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Re: Perl keeps sending wrong content-type by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2011 at 15:07 UTC
Perl keeps sending wrong content-type I doubt it :) Your program or webserver might send wrong content types but not Perl :) I think this is probabily a configuration settings gone wrong, It is good you hide those settings you suspect at being important, this will certainly lead to a solution :D CGI Help Guide and Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html http://search.cpan.org/dist/mod_perl/docs/os/win32/config.pod http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html	[reply]
Re^2: Perl keeps sending wrong content-type by jam3s (Initiate) on Dec 15, 2011 at 16:20 UTC
Reconfigured Apache and all works now, `<Directory /var/www/html/scripts> SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +ParseHeaders Options +ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>` [download]	[reply] [d/l]