From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2002-04-16T03:22:05+09:00
Subject: Re: mime type

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 :)
>
>Regards
>
>Chris
>
"I was told once..." that to be excruciatingly correct you are supposed 
to include carriage returns (\r\n\r\n) -- because it's the spec, even 
though it generally works with just the newlines. Can anybody 
confirm/deny this?

  Mark