I have a system of Perl scripts that build web pages on the fly. I have never worried about content-size headers and this has never caused a problem on the shared server I use.

Now I am moving to a dedicated server and the pages hang. I have experimented by adding content-size headers and it works.

Both servers are Linux/Apache. Does anyone have any idea why it should work on one and not the other - and what I might change on the dedicated server to make it work there?

I suppose the "right" thing to do would be calculate content-size correctly - but that would involve changing and testing thousands of lines of code. The webhosts tell me that adding a large content-size value on every script (which would be much easier) will adversely affect my bandwidth accounting.

In reply to Default Content-size by Elliott

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