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Producing Homepages

If you forget to print the MIME type header for a homepage in this example, you will may get an error message from the server.

Filename: hello_without_MIME_type_header.cgi 
#!/usr/bin/perl

#------------------------------
# [10/30/2002] - File created to see what happens 
#   if we forget to print the MIME type header.
#------------------------------

#------------------------------------------------
# Step 1:  Print MIME type header for homepages.
#------------------------------------------------
#  print "Content-type:  text/html\n\n";

#------------------------------------------------
# Step 2:  Print HTML contents.
#------------------------------------------------
  print "<HTML>\n";
  print "<HEAD>\n";
  print "</HEAD>\n";
  print "<BODY>\n";
  print "Hello, world!\n";
  print "</BODY>\n";
  print "</HTML>\n";

  exit;
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