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Netscape and Opera just show text were there should be 'html'

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Hi folks,
When I show some html indirectly trough cgi with IExplorer.. e.g. :

[tt]
#!/usr/bin/perl
&startpage;

sub startpage {
print <<HTML_END;

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
some interesting text
</body>
</html>

HTML_END
[/tt]

then it works completely fine. But when I start the same script on Netscape or Opera they just show the source code. With other words: they don't understand the text as html. As I'm not a Perl Pro, you perhaps could give me some advice?!?
Thx

Mikk
 
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Sure, here's my $.02: NS and Opera suk.

Ok really, the only problems I've ever had with those two browsers is with javascript incompatibility. All of my perl junk has always gone off without a hitch.

How are you calling your scripts into the page? Notorious P.I.G.
 
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Oh, just noticed something else. Do you have this line somewhere in your script before you start printing HTML?

Code: 
print &quot;Content-type:text/html\n\n&quot;;

I don't see why it would work even in IE if you didn't include that, but ya never know... [wink] Notorious P.I.G.
 
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Yes, you need to tell the client that the stuff coming it's way should be treated as html, rather than plain text that just happens to have characters like <, >, and / all over the place.

Try this before you send any of your html:

print &quot;Content-type: text/html\nPragma: no-cache\n\n&quot; ;

I hope that this helps!

As an aside, I have zero patience for people like PerlIsGood who think that every designer should only care about people who use browsers that they happen to prefer. If I felt that way, I'd put every single piece of HTML I write between &quot;<noframes>&quot; and &quot;<noscript>&quot; tags, just because I happen to like using lynx. :) And I would certainly make my HTML unreadable by people using Internet Exploiter.
-- Scott David Gray
reply-to: sgray@sudval.org
 
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[noevil]

Hey there big fella, I was just stating a random comment about my preferences. Nowhere in there did i say i didn't code for cross-browser compatibility. [peace] Notorious P.I.G.
 
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