I recently have had to move some scripts to a new server and have run into a problem. Scripts that worked perfectly on the old server are returning a 500 error (Malformed Header).

A (Hello world!) test script which fails with the above error is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);
use strict;

sub printpage();

printpage();


exit;

sub printpage(){
print << "EOF";
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Thanks for your request </title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Thanks for submitting your information. We will get back to you sho
+rtly</p><br>
</body>
</html>
EOF
}

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This works as expected running locally but generates the error on the server.

Server config:
 Operating system ... Linux
Kernel version ... 2.4.26
Apache version ... 1.3.31 (Unix)
PERL version ... 5.8.1
Path to PERL ... /usr/bin/perl


Has anybody experienced this before?
I think it must be something to do with the Apache/suExec config - but as I am still a Perl novice would like to have a sanity check (while I await a response from my hosting co).

In reply to Malformed Header Error by macPerl

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