http-equiv syntax using CGI.pm

RPrinceton · Dec 19, 2004

Hi Everyone,
The following HTML snippet was produced by Microsoft Frontpage:

<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
</HEAD>

I need to generate the same coding using CGI.pm. What is the correct syntax for this. Please advise. Thx in advance.
Regards,
Randall Princeton

PaulTEG · Dec 19, 2004

print $q->"<HEAD>\n<META http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\">\n<META http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\">\n</HEAD>\n";

would do it
--Paul

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PaulTEG · Dec 19, 2004

Code:

 print start_html(-head=>meta({-http_equiv=>'Content-Type',
                                      -content=>'text/html'}))

Though the default if omitted is en/us anyway so you don't need that.

extract from

http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/

-

HTH
--Paul

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ChrisHunt · Dec 20, 2004

Bear in mind that those http-equiv meta tags are saying "This is information that should be in the HTTP header, but isn't", usually used when you aren't able to change the headers sent with static pages (e.g. when using shared hosting).

With a CGI script, you send the headers yourself. You should already be sending the text/html content type, often done like this:

Code:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

but maybe like this:

Code:

print $q->header(-type=>'text/html');

All you have to do is change whichever you've got to:

Code:

print $q->header(-type=>'text/html',
                 -charset='windows-1252',
                 -"Content-Language"='en-us');

In addition, it may be worth including the language parameter when opening your HTML document:

Code:

print $q->start_html(-lang=>'en-us');

Though as Paul points out, en-us is the default value anyway.

See

http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/#header

for more about generating headers with CGI.pm

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

RPrinceton · Dec 22, 2004

ChrisHunt
I have taken your 3rd example where you state "All you have to do is change whichever you've got to:" Below is what I receive when using this example.

print $mvHTML->header(-type => 'text/html',
-charset=>'windows-1252',
-"Content-Language"=>'en-us');
Error received:
Can't modify negation (-) in scalar assignment at DispSch.pl line 198, near "'windows-1252',"
Execution of DispSch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

I then changed it to what follows, essentially placing a '>'
symbol after the '=' symbol. This allowed the page to display but it does not generate what I need as mentioned in the post.

print $mvHTML->header(-type => 'text/html',
-charset=>'windows-1252',
-"Content-Language"=>'en-us');

Here is what is contained in the page:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="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>
</head><body>

Any ideas? Please advise. Thx in advance.
Regards,
Randall Princeton

ChrisHunt · Dec 23, 2004

You won't see it in the document, my point is that it doesn't need to be if you send the information in the actual http headers. If your page is on the internet, you can use the online tool at

http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html

to view the headers that are being sent.

If it's not publically accessible, there are extensions you can download for Firefox that will enable you to see them.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

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