[wellylug] Perl scripts not executing in Firefox

[John Durham]

andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting John Durham <johndurh at spunge.org>:
>
>   
>> While testing server systems this morning, I found that a perl script 
>> such as this:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>> print "Hello, world!\n";
>>
>> exit;
>>
>> This will execute in at the root command prompt, but when invoked in 
>> Firefox, it just lists as plain text. Other scripts respond the same 
>> way. Some insight on this would help get the website functions
>> operational.
>>     
> Well ... if you didn't put the file in the CGI directory of your
> web-server, and pointed firefox at that this is working as designed.
>
> perl isn't a client-side scripting language like JavaScript.
It is in the cgi-bin of the web server, and the page was loaded into the 
browser by opening the page file directly from the server. If perl isn't 
a client side scripting language, then why did the script execute at the 
command prompt and not in the browser? Both were used in the same system.
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