From: Ruby Tuesday <rubytuezdayz@...>
Date: 2004-02-23T10:54:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Puzzling...

> The following works for me:
>
> #!C:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"   <<<<<
> print  "1st line "
> print  "2nd line "
> print  "3rd line "

The above works for me as well on both IE6 and Mozilla. But try to change
the header to the following:

> #!C:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"     <<<<<<<
> print  "1st line "
> print  "2nd line "
> print  "3rd line "

Again, both method works with Mozilla. So, I am begining to think that IE is
mis-behaving! Unfortunately, this is the basic RFC for header.
 Please confirm.

Thanks

"Trey Campbell" <drtrey@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4038C68E.8010805@midsouth.rr.com...
> Ruby Tuesday wrote:
>
> >I've tried both using \n\n and \r\n\r\n on Perl and Ruby as well. Both
> >resulted the same.
> >
> >When I tried it with Mozilla, the "Content-type: text/plain" works. Do
you
> >guys think it is the IE things? Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> I doubt that it's an IE vs. Mozilla. This is just basic HTTP stuff. The
> RFC specifies that each message header end with a CRLF, with a "line"
> containing only a CRLF separating the headers from the message body. So
> your Content-type header, ending with two (or more) such sequences
> should work; the first to terminate the header the second to separate
> the header and body, and any subsequent ones are treated as part of the
> body.
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
> print "Your body goes here..."
>
> Should and, at least in my experience, does work.
>
> The RFC also admonishes applications to be tolerant and accept slightly
> incorrectly formed documents:
>
> "The line terminator for message-header fields is the sequence CRLF.
> However, we recommend that applications, when parsing such headers,
> recognize a single LF as a line terminator and ignore the leading CR."
>
> (from http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html#sec19.3)
>
> The following works for me:
>
> #!C:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> print  "1st line "
> print  "2nd line "
> print  "3rd line "
>
> I can replace the first line with one ending in \r\n\r\n (what I had
> originally because it's correct, not just tolerated by well-behaved
> applications). I can also replace with \n\n\n (or \r\n\r\n\r\n) which
> generates an extra blank line in the document.
>
> BTW, I'm running on WinXP SP1 with Apache 2.0.47 and Ruby 1.8.0. I
> tested with IE 6.0 and FireFox 0.8. The directory that contains the
> scripts is set up as follows in httpd.conf:
>
> <Directory "C:/Apache2/htdocs/ruby">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Bottom line, what you posted *should* work. It seems like something else
> must be going on (that is, the problem's not in your Ruby script itself).
>
> Cheers,
> Trey
>
>
>