From: "Denis Peuziat" <dpeuziat@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>CGI scripts must output a "content-type" header. So when you execute >>them on the command line, the line "content-type: text/html" ought to >>be the first thing written out. If they don't do this they have been >>programmed with a disregard of the CGI standard.... >>It is possible that your old webserver was configured to always add >>this content-type header itself, and that because of this the scripts >>worked. > > so the only thing to do is to add a line like <meta > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > at the beginning of the script? > > Denis Not exactly. At the beginning of the output generated by your script, you should do: print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; Octavian --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx