Re: [MacPerl] Web* and CGI output

[joshg@ola.bc.ca (Josh Gemmell)]

Matthias Ulrich Neeracher,neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch,Internet writes:
> > When I started coding for our
> >WebSTAR server, I followed every instruction book that said to start off with
> >"Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n" and continue on with HTML.
> 
> Get a refund for your instruction books and use \015\012 instead. What you're
> generating is \012\015, the one EOL (mis-) convention not recognized by the
> glue.
> 
> >	HTTP/1.0 302 Redirect\r
> >	Location: http://www.helix.net/~joshua\r
> >	\r
> >which, instead of redirecting the browser, just displays a blank web page! A
> >big, gray nothing.
> >	Anybody know anything about this?
> 
> That's another design decision in the glue: It assumes that someone who's going
> to write such an explicit design header is going to have it terminated
> correctly, so you'll either have to use \015\012 or the lazy form:
> 
> Location: xxxxxx\n\n
> 
> In the latter case, the glue figures out that you probably want a 301 status.
> 
> To summarize: the glue figures out to handle a wide variety of response formats
> but obviously not quite everything imaginable.
> 
> Matthias
> 
Wow. That was simple. Thanks, Matthias. I guess, then, that the only way to
have cross-platform compatibility for these types of scripts is to use
"\015\012" explicitly rather than "\r\n". Oh, well. It's a small price to pay
for something that works!

-josh
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