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I am trying to write a CGI application for perl and I am having problems with netscape just printing out the html tags and not the form. It shows the form with internet explorer but most of our users are using netscape. Here is what im doing: print qq! Equipment Availibility !; Can anyone tell me why netscape and how to correct this code and make it work for Netscape?

Posted 10/22/1989

Matthew Pomar

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Try specifying the content type that gets written back to the client browser: Hope this helps! Regards, Matthew Pomar

Posted 1/8/2001

Customer

I added that to the html code but netscape is still just printing out the html tags and not the working form. Any other suggestions that you can make as to why it is not printing out the form. I found that copying the html code and saving it to a file worked to show the page but id like to not have to do that.

Posted 1/10/2001

chris717

Programmer

You didn't post the entire output which makes interperting it difficult. You didn't close the body tag for starters. Include the rest so we have the entire picture.

Posted 1/22/2001

Customer

I got it working. i had to add the line: print "Content-type: text/html \n \n"; to the beginning of each html form for netscape to read it as html and not print the tags out. Thanks for your help everyone.

Posted 1/23/2001

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