kalin mintchev wrote: > hi there... > > i'm starting to work with python cgi scripts using ajax. > one problem i have is that the cgi module doesn;t do (apparently) anything > without the -- print "Content-type: text/html\n" -- line in the script. > > the issue is that the output of the script has to be an xml file and not > an html. it's not really a problem for any normal browser but the retarded > explorer thing doesn;t process the xml unless it gets back the xml header. > > so my scripts work fine on mozilla but not in explorer because of the > missing xml header. > > what would be the correct solution for this? > > thanks.... > > > try "text/xml" or "text/html+xml" as content type. FWIW IE 6 actually required an extension of ".xml" on the output page to consider the page content to be XML, IIRC. IE 7 may be less broken, I haven't tried it much yet.
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