From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T08:24:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [Long, Detailed] Re: Image decompression, eruby

(In response to news:a48d774d05011213552552e222@mail.gmail.com by Belorion)

> The really funny part is if I screw up and put a typo in my cgi
> script, I get a server error (as expected), but when I hit refresh
> after fixing the typo the image pops up just fine.  But, that is the
> *only* time I can get IE6 to display the image.  Any suggestions?

Yes, although this is not a 'solution'-type suggestion but rather a 'how to 
progress from here'-type suggestion: 

Get yourself a decent debugging proxy (LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox, 
httpdebug.pl in Perl, any other) that allows you to inspect headers sent 
from and to IE when accessing REAL images. Then compare with what you send 
and make up for the lack of headers. 

Sometimes it has helped to create cgi's that are called cgi.jpg, cgi.png, 
etc.. to fool browsers with a simpler logic into believing the image. This 
can be hard to get to work with your webserver though. 

Tell me if this works out, I may have the time to look at this in more 
detail. 

kaspar

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