Re: [MacPerl] HTTP Headers (was "CGI line reader")

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 21.21 11/7/97, Richard Rathe wrote:
>I find it interesting that you included the HTTP header info:
>
>        Content-type:   text/html
>
>For some reason I thought this was being handled by the "glue". Is it
>necessary? (My guess is that it's not.) I suppose my CGI could return a GIF
>in which case I might have to force the browser to view it correctly with:
>
>        Content-type:   image/gif
>
>What HTTP header info does the glue supply? Is there any limit to the
>headers I can add? Thanks, RR

The glue does not supply any content-type, I don't think.  If it does, it shouldn't.  You have to add it.  You cannot have more than one content-type, unless you use non-parsed headers, but that is a whole nother thing.  So unless the glue is smart enough to add content-type of text/html if no content-type is given, you need to give one.

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