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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:41:52 -0700
From: Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net>
To: Gilles <nospam@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: [CGI] Why is HTML not rendered?
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On 2012-08-17 at 15:27:59 +0200,
Regarding "[CGI] Why is HTML not rendered?,"
Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

> For some reason, this CGI script that I found on Google displays the
> contents of the variable but the HTML surrounding it is displayed
> as-is by the browser instead of being rendered:

... [with all due respect and apologies to another thread on this list!]

> print "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8"

That line tells the browser that the response is plain text.

Do this instead to have the browser render the HTML:

    print "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8"

HTH,
Dan

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