From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-04-15T21:38:27+09:00
Subject: Re: mime type

Hello --

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Chris Ross wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:21:02PM +0900, Tobias Reif muttered...
> : Hi all,
> :
> :    puts "content-type: text/plain\n"
> :
> : doesn't work (server error), but
> :
> :    print "content-type: text/plain\n\n"
> :
> : works; why?
> :
>
> because you need atleast one blank line between the headers [which
> content-type is] and the content of the page. It's a webserver/client
> thing. Perfectly normal :)

Actually it's a Ruby subtlety, in this case :-)  Tobi knows about the
blank line.  He was trying to get two \n's out of puts by putting one
in explicitly (note that he uses puts in the first case, print in the
second).  But see my other response -- the \n gets stripped by puts.


David

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