wierd cgi behaviour in PP Ruby 1.8.0

[Damphyr]

Well it's the short calm period before the storm of an upcoming product
release and I 'm stealing time to code something interesting for a change.
And I've picked the time to switch from 1.6.8 to 1.8.0 . Unfortunately
the calm period is much too short to be able to do it on the Linux boxes
(where code of some actual value is running ) so I'm playing about
with the PP package.
And I've stumbled on some wierd behaviour using CGI.
The following code is straightforward and simple:

def taken? name
b=["one","two"]
return "" if (b.include?(name) )
return " not"
end

name="one"
puts "#{name} does #{taken?(name)} exist"
name="three"
puts "#{name} does #{taken?(name)} exist"

will give:

ruby simple.rb

one does exist
three does not exist.

Now, using a simple form and a mini http server (it's called Xerver -
it's a java thingy that comes in handy) that is cgi capable I duplicate
this functionality in the following:

require 'cgi'
def taken? name
b=["one","two"]
return "" if (b.include?(name) )
return " not"
end
cgi = CGI.new("html3") # add HTML generation methods
cgi.out {
cgi.html { cgi.head { cgi.title{"Availability"} }+
cgi.body { name=cgi.params["name"]
"#{name} does #{taken?(name)} exist"}
}
}

which outputs:

one does not exist

and

three does not exist


Does anybody have any idea why this would happen?
I'll test it on an Apache installation I've got, but I can't see why it
would be any different.
V.-

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