It is a rather wierd problem. Consider the following small perl code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw{ :standard };
use CGI::Carp qw{ fatalsToBrowser };
my $q = CGI->new;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<head>\n";
print "<script src='/home/bloodcount/Desktop/pm.js' type='text/javascript'></script>\n";
print "</head>\n";
print "<body>\n";
print "<h1>Click any number to see its factors</h1>\n";
print "</body></html>";
It prints a very small html page and includes a jasvascript file. The problem is that the javascript file isn't included. The "physical" copy is in the correct place. I thought that something may be wrong with the code I am generating so I copied the raw html which comes out if you run this file in the console which is: Content-type: text/html
<head>
<script src='/home/bloodcount/Desktop/pm.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Click any number to see its factors</h1>
</body></html>
I ran it in chrome and it worked perfectly. The javascript file has exactly one line if code which is:
console.log("It works!");
Any ideas what may be causing this? Note: I know that the second code listing doesn't have !DOCTYPE.