From: Trey Campbell <drtrey@...>
Date: 2004-02-23T12:25:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Puzzling...

Ruby Tuesday wrote:

>>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
>
>  
>
Trying it with the following:

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

Mozilla renders the page (as if it encountered a <pre> tag). IE shows a 
dialog offering to run the associated application (but warning that it 
might not be a good idea to do so). I wouldn't characterize that as 
misbehaving since that's what I'd expect it to do, or at least offer to 
do; it's just doing a better job of recognizing potential helper 
applications than Mozilla is.

Just change the extension to something that's not associated with a 
program (like .rbx) and it works the same as Mozilla. I used the name 
puzzle.rbx and got the same results in both browsers. Shouldn't be a 
problem if you're using the shebang line to run it as a CGI, not via the 
extension.

Cheers,
Trey