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As sort of an introduction to node.js for a class, I'm using it to program a cgi script that handles a simple login/logout/userID system. I'm having an issue though, as where I try to use the response.write() method to hand the HTML to the client, I'm receiving an Unexpected Token ILLEGAL error on the quotation mark where I am starting my string:
var response = require('HTTP');
login = inputReader('QUERY_STRING');
if (login === "false" || login === "logout") {
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
response.write(
" <!doctype html>
<head>
<title>Session Makes</title>
<meta name='Author' content='Sam Judson'>
<meta name='Contact' content='[email protected]'>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='SessionMaker.css'>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The way is shut.</h1>
<form action='' method='put'>
<input type='text' name='login'>
<input type='submit' name='login' value='Login'>
</form>
</body>
</html> "
);
};
The error gets thrown at the quotation mark that starts line 7. I've tried just about everything I can (using single instead of double quotes, nesting quotes, removing the quotes, putting the string inside brackets, etc.), but nothing seems to work. The weird thing is I've seen a number of examples on websites doing the exact same thing I'm trying to do, with no such issue.
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asked Jul 18 '26 04:07
It seems that you have wrong formatting for the string, in javascript you can't continue a string to a new line without either escaping the newline or adding strings over lines.
This will throw an error:
var str = "Starting string
trying to continue";
Using escaping
var str = "Starting string\
trying to continue";
Using adding
var str = "Starting string" +
"trying to continue";
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