IE doesn't execute scripts!
a web server does, have you got a web server set up?
You can tell if it's the server or the browser, use IE, download the script. Now, if the contents of the file is the actual script, then it's a server issue, if it contains the script output, i.e. the HTML code for your Hello World script, then the server has executed the script and likely you need the mime-type.
Try this:
print <<END_HTML;
Content-type: text/html;<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head><body>
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body></html>
END_HTML
Without the mime-type the browser doesn't know that it's a HTML file. FF probably takes a guess, but it's only a guess. For instance, 'application/pdf' would be a PDF file, so IE would know to open it with Adobe. As IE doesn't recieve a known mime-type, it assumes it's something it can't handle, so prompts you to download the file instead. It should only download the output though as I described above.
Note the blank line between the mime-type and the HTML DTD? Very important. That bit tells the browser it's the end of the headers, and the start of the file content.
Let us know how you get on.
Thanks folks!
