From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T19:58:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Question re: graphics output of CGIs (mime-type issue?)

* Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> [0745 11:45]:
> 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'm talking about the extension.
And some versions of IE. So laws of logic don't apply :)
 
> ScriptAlias "/edit-img" "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/image.cgi"
> 
> ought to do the trick.

Doh! Cheers, will try that.
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