Re^2: Non-CGI perl scripts on a web server?

[Amblikai]

Thanks for your reply, so if there's nothing being returned to the browser i don't need the line at all?

[Corion]

Every request to a HTTP server is supposed to return something. There is no empty reply.

If there really is "nothing" to return, consider either outputting a redirect:

Status: 302
Location: http://somewhere.example.com/

... or alternatively, outputting a page that says "Request submitted, thank you.".

[Happy-the-monk]

Thanks for your reply, so if there's nothing being returned to the browser i don't need the line at all?

If you don't mind the browser possibly displaying a "500" Internal Server Error and a "404" Not found in return, you don't.

A simple way of stopping it from doing that may be a print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"; to deliver back an empty text document.

Cheers, Sören