This webapp was developed on my WinXP box using Apache 2.0 as my test webserver and Perl 5.8.6. It uses CGI::Application (C::A) but I've overridden it to use CGI::Simple instead of CGI as per this tip in the C::A Wiki like so:

 sub cgiapp_get_query {
    my $self = shift;

    require CGI::Simple;
    my $q = CGI::Simple->new();
     
    return $q;
 }
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Unfortunately, I've gotta move this bad-boy to a Win2k box running IIS5 (also Perl 5.8.6). It's not using the ISAPI plugin for Perl. (Is that a factor?)

I'm aware of the nph header setting and I'm setting the CGI::Simple query object to nph like so in the setup() method (even though the docs say that I need not do so because CGI::Simple auto-detects IIS):

   $self->query()->nph(1);
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I'm doing redirects in my run_modes just like the C::A documentation tells me like this:

   $self->header_type('redirect');
   $self->header_props( -url => $newurl );
   return;
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The redirects in Firefox and IE are both causing a download of the redirect headers as a text file instead of actually redirecting me. The form submission is also causing a download in FireFox but in IE I get a printout of the headers at the top of the page in one line like so:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:42
+:29 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
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Sorry if this seemed a little long winded but I'm trying to provide as much as possible. So, I understand the concept of NPH... what I don't get is how this beahviour seems to be busting me up only some times and not all the time. (Can't ANYTHING be black and white anymore? Hmmm... I must be growing up if everything is in shades of gray.)

Has anyone else had this selective behaviour? Do I need to explicitly set some more headers somewhere? Is this something to do with CGI::Simple's NPH support? All help is welcome and if anyone want's more detail, I'll give it. None of the other nodes I've come across here seem to cover this. All I'm looking for now is a direction to investigate in because I'm plain stumped. My apologies if this is isn't "perlish" enough but I'm not sure where else to turn.

Many Thanks,
Meraxes