Object tag doesn't work as expected

[linuxwiz42]

I'm trying to use cgi scripting for some simple text output to a web page. The objective is a simple demonstration of displaying A/D data on a web page. Most of the examples I've looked at use the cgi script to generate the HTML code. That seems to work OK but I'd rather not do that and so I'm embedding an object tag in my existing index.html file.

As a test case I'm simply trying to echo a string to the page. Here's the script.
test.txt

Here's my index.html file.
index.txt

And finally, here's a screen shot of the result.

It spins for about 10 seconds saying it's transferring data, then apparently times out. I also tried using the embed tag with pretty much the same result.

Any ideas?