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Re: [MacPerl] Source code to HTML

At 4:32 PM -0500 12/4/99, Paul Schinder wrote:
>At 2:11 PM -0700 12/4/99, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>>Mike
>>
>>Not a Perl problem, but an HTML feature...
>>
>>HTML considers <......>  as Tags.
>>
>>Any tag that it doesn't understand it ignores.
>>
>>You can circumvent this by changing
>>
>>   from.......  <
>>
>>   to.........  &lt;
>
>
>Wouldn't it be better just to fix the server so that it served Perl 
>scripts with the right MIME type?

Unless I'm missing something, wouldn't that interfere with handling 
CGI's with the same extension? .pl files are set to "CGI-script" on 
my server. Currently, I'm removing the extensions from the perl files 
and serving them up with a <PRE> before including the file. I'd like 
to not hassle with the encoding. I'm running my own server using 
Tenon's WebTen.

>Having to encode all of the forbidden (there are more than just < 
>and >) HTML characters in each Perl script you put on a web site 
>would be a real pain, and anyone who downloads the thing in raw 
>(Netscape calls it "source") mode won't be able to use the script as 
>intended.  The MIME types should be set so that Perl scripts are 
>text/plain.


Mike Schienle                                 Interactive Visuals, Inc.
mgs@ivsoftware.com                  Remote Sensing and Image Processing
http://www.ivsoftware.com/         Analysis and Application Development

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