PERL CGI Beginners - RE: Premature end of script headers

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RE: Premature end of script headers

Bob Showalter

2005-02-08, 3:55 pm

vishwas bhakit wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am getting following error.
>
> Premature end of script headers
>
> Can anybody plz tell me
> what is the cause of this.

When the webserver runs your CGI script, it parses the output, looking for
the MIME headers, followed by a blank line, followed by the response body.
It will then add some headers of its own and send the complete response back
to the client.

This error occurs when your script terminates before the end of the headers
is seen. Either your script isn't outputting headers correctly, or it's
dying for some reason before the headers have been fully output.

Here's a more detailed treatment:
http://www.htmlhelp.org/faq/cgifaq.4.html#3

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