in reply to CGI.pm idiosyncrasy?
You have a misplaced body tag which is nonsensical in the start_html context
Try this program (note that it doesnt send xhtml).
(Tested on solaris with perl5.0503)
Script:
Returns:
This code was adapted from the CGI.pm html POD
--hackmare
(Tested on solaris with perl5.0503)
Script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use strict;
my $p = new CGI;
print $p->header;
print $p->start_html(-title=>'Welcome to 0.0.0.0!',
-author=>'ronan@hackmare.com',
-base=>{href => 'http://0.0.0.0/cgi-bin/dir/'},
-meta=>{'keywords'=>'pharoah secret mummy',
'copyright'=>'Hackmarish Things Happening'},
-style=>{'src'=>'/styles/style1.css'},
-dtd=>1,
-BGCOLOR=>'blue',
-vlink => 'black');
print $p->p('Is this what you want?');
print $p->end_html;
Returns:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Welcome to 0.0.0.0!</TITLE> <LINK REV=MADE HREF="mailto:ronan%40hackmare.com"> <BASE HREF="http://localhost/perlmonk.pl"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="pharoah secret mummy"> <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Hackmarish Things Happening"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/styles/style1.css"> </HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="blue" VLINK="black"><P>Is this what you want?</P></BODY></HTML>
This code was adapted from the CGI.pm html POD
--hackmare
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