[Xitami] cgi form result

[Leon Raymer]

Okay. Another newbie query. I have the followinig simple html form 
attempting to post to a simple cgi result page, also shown below. The html 
form opens the cgi page in the browser but nothing is rendered and the 
Xitami icon in the Windows task tray times out.

Let me prface by declaring that I am running Xitami v2.4d9 straight out of 
the box, on a Windows98 system, with the original .cfg file. And, the two 
scripts below are textbook examples. All that is changed is the path to my 
Perl and that is ActiveState version 5.8.0.

All help will be greatly appreciated. I've been brickWalling this for a 
couple of weeks and confidence in Xitami, Perl and the whole cgi process is 
quickly waning.

thanks, Leon

#the animal.html form file
<html>
<head>
<title>Animal Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action = "http://localhost/cgi-bin/animal.cgi" method = "post">what's 
your favorite animal?<br />

<input type = "text" name = "animal" size = "30" />
<input name = "submit" type = "submit" value = "submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

#the animal.cgi file

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -wt
use strict;
use cgi ':standard';

my $animal;
$animal = param('animal');

print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Show me the $animal";


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