From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T19:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Question re: graphics output of CGIs (mime-type issue?)

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:28:42PM +0900, Rasputin wrote:
> > I tried just using a Content-type of image/jpeg,
> > but I got garbage in the browser. 
> 
> Don't some browsers insist on looking at filetype
> rather than mime-type?

What do you mean by "filetype"? Do you mean "extension"? It shouldn't make
any different. If the server sends back

Content-type: image/jpeg

then where is the filename to be found in the response? The browser could
look at the source URL (/foo/bar/baz.cgi) but that doesn't tell it anything
about the type of the response.

I've written CGIs which spit out jpeg's and they've worked, so I think it's
likely to be some other trivial problem. Post the URL here and we can test
it using telnet to port 80...

> Or alternatively (and haven't figured out how to do this yet)
> 
> map all requests to a particular location to your cgi
> (i.e. requests to http://yourserver.com/edit-img/
> 	are mapped to http://yourserver.com/cgi-bin/image.cgi
> )

Something like:

ScriptAlias "/edit-img" "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/image.cgi"

ought to do the trick.

Regards,

Brian.