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RE: [htmltmpl] First line of template unconditionally deleted

[Charles K. C. <ccl...@ht...>]

From: htm...@li... <> wrote:

: I've just begun using HTML::Template, and have run into
: the issue that the first line of the simplest template
: gets unconditionally deleted. I noticed this when my
: DOCTYPE got mangled in the output. Adding a newline at
: the top of the file, naturally, fixes this. 
: 
: Is this a known bug? I searched the mailing list archive,
: the buglist, and the discussions, but saw no mention of
: it. I'm hoping someone will go "aha, it's that..." 

    You'll probably need to show us your code. If we can
reproduce the error we might be able to tell you the
problem.

HTH,

Charles K. Clarkson
-- 
Mobile Homes Specialist
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Re: [htmltmpl] First line of template unconditionally deleted

[Fred C. <fre...@gm...>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:22:45 -0500, Charles K. Clarkson
<ccl...@ht...> wrote:
> From: htm...@li... <> wrote:
> 
> : I've just begun using HTML::Template, and have run into
> 
> 
> : the issue that the first line of the simplest template
> : gets unconditionally deleted. I noticed this when my
> : DOCTYPE got mangled in the output. Adding a newline at
> : the top of the file, naturally, fixes this.
> :
> : Is this a known bug? I searched the mailing list archive,
> : the buglist, and the discussions, but saw no mention of
> : it. I'm hoping someone will go "aha, it's that..."
> 
>     You'll probably need to show us your code. If we can
> reproduce the error we might be able to tell you the
> problem.

I've attached the simple test template and script to this message.

I probably should have mentioned platform info:

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2
Perl 5.8.5
Apache from the ports: apache+mod_ssl-1.3.31+2.8.19
add'l Apache modules: mod_perl-1.29, mod_auth_mysql-2.20_3, mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a

Thanks for the response!

Re: [htmltmpl] First line of template unconditionally deleted

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Fred Condo wrote:

> I've attached the simple test template and script to this message.

I tried your test with Perl 5.8.3 and HTML::Template 2.7.  The first
line was printed in the output.  What version of HTML::Template are
you using?

-sam

Re: [htmltmpl] First line of template unconditionally deleted

[Fred C. <fre...@gm...>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:36:26 -0400 (EDT), Sam Tregar <sa...@tr...> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Fred Condo wrote:
> 
> > I've attached the simple test template and script to this message.
> 
> I tried your test with Perl 5.8.3 and HTML::Template 2.7.  The first
> line was printed in the output.  What version of HTML::Template are
> you using?

2.7 from the FreeBSD ports. I'm starting to think that Karen Cravens
is right: something is eating the line.

As a test, I ran the script from the command line, and the first line
shows up. Running under mod_perl, the first line vanishes. This is
also the first time I've worked in the mod_perl environment. Am I
making an incredibly boneheaded gaffe in the code?

Re: [htmltmpl] First line of template unconditionally deleted

[Fred C. <fre...@gm...>]

Solved: because PerlSendHeader is on, I needed to send at least a
content-type header. Sorry to waste the list's time, and thanks very
much to those who responded.

-fred

Re: [htmltmpl] First line of template unconditionally deleted

[Fred C. <fre...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:54:42 -0500, Karen Cravens
<kar...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:10:49 -0700, Fred Condo <fre...@gm...> wrote:
> > I probably should have mentioned platform info:
> 
> Possibly even more important:  what are you using to *read* the
> output?  That is, are you sure that your script isn't sending it only
> to have it eaten by something else?

Safari at first, but the same thing happens with wget and with Mozilla
1.7.2. However--I noticed when looking at the file with Mozilla and
wget that the MIME type Apache is sending is text/plain.

> 
> What happens if you put the DOCTYPE declaration all on one line?

It vanishes. The first line, regardless of content, goes away unconditionally.