Quoth Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:45:36PM +0200, Sebastian Tennant > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Tinkering with Scheme and CGI... >> >> Iceweasel _insists_ on asking me what I want to do with 'foo.scm' (save >> it to disk or whatever). >> >> Neither IE6 nor Firefox (in Windoze) ask me this question, they simply >> render the intended output. >> >> Of course, it _could_ be my server; lighttpd, but I doubt it. >> >> Does anyone know if lighttpd behaves differently according to which >> client is making the request? Surely not, but... > > Are you sending back the right Content-Type? If you're generating an > HTML document, you need to send back a Content-Type of text/html in the > reply headers. (I don't recall the exact syntax, but your CGI > programming documentation should mention this somewhere) > > If you don't send a Content-Type yourself, the server and/or Web > browser will guess at how to handle the page, which tends to result in > the symptoms you describe.
Thanks Daniel. That was precisely the problem. I was using text/text rather than text/plain :-) Good ol' IceWeasel for making me do the right thing :-) Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
