From: Michael Buffington <michael.buffington@...>
Date: 2005-04-21T09:27:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Newb CGI Question

On 4/20/05, Paul Battley <pbattley@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are reading the data, but not actually sending it to the client.
> 
> -         File.read("agent.gif")
> +         print(File.read("agent.gif"))
> 

Adding print produces the same result - can't display the image due to errors.

> I think that's the problem.  You can also get rid of the 304 status;
> it's not appropriate:
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

Fair enough - I added because when accessing the image directly, the
returned status was 304.

Interestingly, when I remove the 304, I get a broken image rather than
an error message.

> 
> Finally, you are sending the length of a different file in the code
> sample you gave.

Woops. Email editing faux pas. The code is correct.

>