--- Advance Design - Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> I have written some web pages incorporating Forms and Perl processing on the server.
>Everything
> works fine on my IE 5.5 Browser but when I use the Netscape 4.7 and Opera 5.12
>browsers, the
> HTML sent back from the Perl programme appears as (source) text.
> Do you have any ideas why.
>
> Thanks
Newer versions of Internet Explorer have a "feature" that examines that beginning of
the data that
it receives and attempts to render the data accordingly. It completely violates W3C
standards by
ignoring the content-type header. Many, many developers have been bitten by this bug.
I've
accidently sent GIFs with a content type of image/pjpeg and IE still rendered it
correctly but
Netscape didn't. That was less than fun to debug.
In your script, find out what is responsible for printing the content-type header and
post that
code snippet here. It will be something like the following:
# If you're doing it by hand, it will resemble this:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
# If you're using CGI.pm, it will resemble on of the two following lines:
print header();
# or (varies depending on the name of the CGI object)
print $query->header;
There are many different ways of printing the content-type header, but they will
likely resemble
the snippets above. Send that and we may have an answer for you.
Of course, you can also telnet to port 80 (assuming that's the telnet port) and view
the headers
that way). Most likely, you're sending a content type of 'text/plain'. Here's what
you'd enter
in telnet:
GET /cgi-bin/somescript.cgi?foo=bar HTTP/1.1
Host: www.somehost.com
Substitute your own host and path and make sure you have two newlines after the host
header.
Cheers,
Curtis Poe
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Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/)
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