The source code of hello.pl : #!/usr/bin/perl # HTTP Header for the server: note two newlines print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" ; # HTML header for the browser print "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC " ."\"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN\">\n" ; print "<HTML>\n" ; print " <HEAD>\n" ; print " <TITLE>Hello</TITLE>\n" ; print " </HEAD>\n" ; print " <BODY>\n" ; print " <H1>Hello</H1><HR>\n" ; print " Hello, and goodbye\n" ; print " </BODY>\n" ; print "</HTML>\n" ;