From: Ken D'Ambrosio <ken@...>
Date: 2013-02-06T22:34:13+09:00
Subject: XML on the server?

I'm trying to dip my toes into Ajax, and am attempting to give an XML 
reply to the query.  And I am *completely* failing -- either it gets 
passed, but with an HTML MIME header (which is why I'm guessing it's not 
recognized by the client as XML), OR it barfs and gives a 500-series 
server-side error.  Here's what the pertinent code currently looks like 
-- it's been through many permutations, but has never quite been right 
enough, so I assume I'm doing something dumb:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'cgi'
comics = <some hash here>
cgi = CGI.new("html3")  # add HTML generation methods
if(cgi['action']=="foo")
   cgi.out("application/xml"){
       comics.to_xml
           }
   exit
else
# other stuff here

I have a sneaking suspicion I'm completely missing some obvious 
point... but darned if I know what.  Any pointers?

Thanks much!

-Ken

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