From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-03-19T23:51:15+09:00
Subject: Why does basic cgi example fail on Apache/Windows?

This has come up in the past, but why does this bare-bones cgi example (from
Pickaxe) fail on Apache/Windows?

#!c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n"
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
print "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\r\n"

Error log says:
malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 200 OK: test.rb

Anything using 'cgi' works, what is it doing to comfort Apache that the
above does not do? A packet sniff of what comes out of a successful .rb
script using the 'cgi' module shows this header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:34:06 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Win32)
Content-Length: 1120
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

End of lines are OD OA (\r\n), same as above.

Tried Apache 2.0.44 and Apache 1.3.14 running on Windows 2k, both don't like
the test.rb header (although that same header works fine on IIS...)

Chris
http://clabs.org