From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-09-05T22:07:37+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi redirect

Tom Robinson <tom@alkali.spamfree.org> wrote in message news:<2tednuc3rnsp70p23vjf7rhim4rn86o9gf@4ax.com>...
> On 4 Sep 2002 18:22:04 -0700, patrick-may@monmouth.com (Patrick May)
> wrote:
> 
> >correctly in mod_ruby.  Still, I am concerned about the other issues:
> >
> >* does the extra Content-Type header matter?
> >* does the order of the headers matter?
> >* does the fact that status is "302" instead of "302 Moving" matter?
> 
> These all depend on the browser, and you know how diverse those are!
> I think the main thing to consider is that CGI.pm does it in a certain
> way and that (I've found) always works, so the safest thing is going
> to be to copy the CGI.pm behaviour exactly.  I've tried changing some
> of this stuff before and I've run into problems more often than not.
> I think the content-type header breaks the redirection in internet
> explorer but I'm not 100% sure.

Hmmm... guess it's time to do some browser testing!  I appreciate the heads up.

~ Patrick