in reply to Unwanted line (CGI question)

By default, CGI::Application uses CGI which will output the header 'content-type' by default: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;

print header,
      start_html('A Simple Example'),
      end_html;

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produces: 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" 
  xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>A Simple Example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
  content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

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Normally, for web pages serving html, you want/need that line. Why do you think it's weird? What problems is it causing you?

-derby

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Re^2: Unwanted line (CGI question)
by xiaoyafeng (Deacon) on Oct 21, 2008 at 11:18 UTC
    Normally, for web pages serving html, you want/need that line. Why do you think it's weird? What problems is it causing you?

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 is http header. IMHO, that means it's invisible to client. That's why I think it's weird.

    I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction
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      Right ... depending on the client. Are you seeing that line in the browser?

      -derby
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        Sure, both IE 6.0 and Firefox 3.0

        I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction
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