From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-04-04T00:13:48+09:00
Subject: cgi serving xml from Apache problem

(This seems like more an Apache question than a Ruby question, but ...)

I'm trying to write a simple Ruby script to serve up an xml file (rss).
Apache seems to be doing something weird. Here's the raw content output from
the script to the command line:

  Content-type: text/xml

  <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"

The HEX for the gap between "text/xml" and "<!DOC" is just:

  0D 0A 0D 0A

(The Ruby for this is simple:

    def output_feed
      print "Content-type: text/xml\n\n"
      print rss_xml
    end
)

But here's the header coming from Apache:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:07:46 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.0.44 (Win32)
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  Content-Type: text/xml

  ff2
  <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"

Notice the 'ff2' inserted in there. Anyone know what the heck that is?

Hex between 'text/xml' and '<!DOC':

  0D 0A 0D 0A 66 66 32 0D 0A

Chris
http://clabs.org