Problem

[Alan Stewart]

~sdpm~
On 7 Mar 2002, at 8:20, Joel Fentin wrote:

> ~sdpm~
> I have authored a number of websites on speedsoft. Suddenly all
> pages generated by perl display the following message when viewed
> with old browsers: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> 
> No such problem when viewed by new browsers.
> 
> Speedsoft recently upgraded to Perl 5.6.1. This may be the source
> of the change. Does anybody know how to get rid of the message.
> 

Your page is generated in XHTML complete with a proper XML header. Older 
browsers don't do XML, but can handle (ignore) XHTML syntax changes. Assuming 
you are using cgi.pm, what probably happened is an upgrade to a later version 
of cgi.pm during the perl 5.6.1 upgrade. From the history of cgi.pm:

Version 2.69

   2. CGI.pm now emits XHTML by default. Disable with -no_xhtml. 


P.S. Your http connection shows a perl error occurring:

AWOM.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at 
/usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/redbird/cgi-bin/AWOM/AWOM.pl 
line 54.



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