OpenEuphoria

RE: cgi (correction)

• Posted by Cassidy Napoli <gonzotek at yahoo.com> Oct 11, 2001
• 377 views

Rolf,

I disagree, respectfully.  Please read this document:
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/out.html

Essentially, there are three kinds of "Parsed headers":
----
Content-Type - The type of document you are returning
-or-
Location - Is a reference to another document.
-or-
Status - A status messagte, like 404 Forbidden.
----
You only need 1 of these.  The browser wouldn't know what to do if you 
sent more than 1.  If I were generating dynamic html on-the-fly, I would 
be using Content-Type: text/html.  But I'm not even sending back text.  
I'm sending an image (I've changed it to gif, finally).  So even if I 
had to use Content-Type, it would be Content-Type: image/gif.  But then 
I would have to know how to send a binary file with puts(), and I don't 
think I'm up to that.  Location: is essentially a redirection, a pointer 
to the file you want the browser to retrieve.

-=Cassidy=-

rolf.schroeder at desy.de wrote:
> Correction, this must be the first output of the cgi based program:
> 
> puts(1,"Content-Type: text/html\n\n") -- Essential for CGI execution!
> 
> Sorry, and have a nice day, Rolf