From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T08:06:17+09:00
Subject: Re: problems sending binary data in cgi

On 12 Feb 2003, Helmut Schottmueller wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to send binary data (e.g. gif file) to a web browser using
> the following code:
>
> f = File.open(gif_filename, "rb")
> content = f.read(filesize)
> f.close
>
> print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n"
> print content
>
> I'm using ruby for windows. I'm getting problems because every 0x0a
> will be converted to 0x0d 0x0a. Must I use another method to print
> binary data for output? I've found nothing in the ruby documentation.

perhaps

  f.binmode

but i'm on unices so can't test this.

-a

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