Greetings,
I'm trying to understand why I'm getting malformed headers from my cgi-bin program written under perl, but not the equivalent under csh. If I system() to a command that writes to stdout, apache returns a "malformed header from script" error. If I do the same thing command that doesn't, everything works fine.
So:

printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
system("touch /usr/tmp/bogus");
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works, but:

printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
system("echo hello");
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doesnt. If I do the same thing under csh or c, it works fine. In fact, just using csh, the server acts as if I have non-parsed-headers and prints the output of my external program (which takes about 1sec to run, and gets called 20 or so times) sequentially each time it is called, which gives my users a nice status update. I've also tried turning autoflush on stdout for the script:

$old_fh = select(OUTPUT_HANDLE);
$| = 1;
select($old_fh);
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but that doesn't seem to do it either.

Thanks for any insights!
--david