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Hello all

I am trying some really basic server script for outputing a html page. Firefox firebug says it`s OK but I don`t see a thing. Can you look at my code?

here is my html form:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head><title>PERL TEST</title>
    <script>
    
    window.onload = function() {
        
        var pressIt = document.getElementById('submit');
        pressIt.onclick = populatePage; 
    };
    
    
    
    
    
    function populatePage() {
    
        var req = newRequest();
        var url = "http://localhost/cgi-bin/response.pl";
        var name = document.getElementById("name").value;
        var age = document.getElementById('age').value;
        console.log(name, age);
        if ( name  && age  && req  ) {
            url += ("?name=" + name + "&age="+age);
            req.open("GET", url );
            req.send(url);
             
            }
        
    }
    
    function newRequest() {
        try { 
            var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
            } catch ( otherMS ) {
                try {
                    request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
                    } catch ( otherMS ) {
                        try {
                            request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XML
+HTTP");
                            } catch ( failed ) {
                                request = null;
                                }
                            }
                        }
                return request;
    }
    
    
    </script>
    
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#ccffcc">
    
    <h1>Please fill the small form below</h1>
    <form>
    <input type='text' value='' id='name' name='name' >Enter name</inp
+ut>
    <input type='text' value='' id='age' name='age' >Enter age</input>
    <input type='button' value='Submit' id='submit' >
    </form>
    </body>
</html>
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And Perl`s response form cgi-bin:

#!/opl/lampp/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI;

## RESPONSE TO XMLHTTP:

my $response = CGI->new();
my ( $name, $age ) = ($response->param("name"), $response->param("age"
+) );


if ( $name && $age ) {
    
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    print "<html><head></head>";
    print "<body><h1>Hello $name </h1></body>";
    print "</html>";
    }
else {
    exit(0);
}
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Don`t mind the example, I see in the debug that server responded OK, but I don`t see the actual HTML page...

In reply to perl cgi server response issue or not? by heatblazer

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