From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-02-08T06:26:55+09:00
Subject: Re: odd http header corruption

On Feb 6, 2006, at 1:16 AM, Sam Joseph wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I can't tell if this is a problem with the ruby cgi library or with
> rails action pack (no response from the rails list so far), but I  
> get an
> occasional error in the http headers from rails like this:
>
> HTTP/1.x 200 OK
> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:56:03 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_ruby/1.2.4
> Ruby/1.8.4(2005-12-24)
> #<#<Class: 0x40b8e99c>:0x40b8e8d4>Content-Type: text/html
> Cache-Control: no-cache

You're adding a metaclass thingy to your headers.

> Some kind of object data is getting dumped in front of the Content- 
> Type,
> which screws up how some browsers display the page.
>
> Setting Content-Type explicitly in the controller doesn't seem to  
> help,
> and so far I have been unable to detect what causes this, or why it
> happens under some circumstances and not others - I am posting this  
> here
> in case anybody has seen something similar, or has ideas about  
> possible
> causes.

Does it go away if you take that out?

I'm going to blame your code or Rails on this one.

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