From: "greyfade@..." <greyfade@...>
Date: 2005-05-23T17:20:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and CGI error 500


Ara.T.Howard wrote:
<snip a bunch of pointless drivel>

you missed everything i actually said in my post.

would it have helped if i had not said "magically worked" but instead
some more boring phrase like "worked as expected"?  or would
"mystically worked" have thrown you off as well?

(if this message sounds condescending, it is.  i was seriously offended
by the verbosity and tone of your post.  apologies if you are
offended.)

> On Sun, 22 May 2005, greyfade@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > i'm going insane because nothing, AFAICT, is wrong.  the server is
correctly
> > set-up, permissions are correct, ownership is correct, ruby is
installed and
> > working, yet NOTHING seems to coax it into working.  it repeatedly
reports
> > this incredibly uninformative "Premature end of script headers"
error.
>
> this is because the script headers prematurely ended before the
content started
> since \r\n was never seen ;-)
>
it works without any linefeeds.  newlines are sufficient in all my test
cases, irregarldess of my choice of language.  all platforms are
unix-based, and i've not touched Windows in quite some time, so i'm
unsure of its behavior or requirements.

if it's out of spec, it doesn't seem to matter.

> > is there something i could have missed?  a possible
misconfiguration?  or
> > does ruby just hate me?
>
> doubtful ;-)
>
no, it turns out to be a major misconfiguration on my part.  there is
something seriously wrong with one of my test environments.  it works
on another server (one of my targets).

> -a
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