Re^3: CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?"

Something weird is indeed going on. It appears that firefox (at least my firefox/iceweasel 2.0.0.3):

1. does not re-upload a file on a reload (my mozilla seamonkey/iceape 1.0.8 DOES re-upload on reload).

2. does a new GET request for the result page when you try to save it. (of course, that means you get a blank page - except that you're printing an extra blank line in convert_word2.cgi). (mozilla does the same).

Here's the script I used to test that. Note that if you outcomment the "Content-Disposition" line, firefox will request you to save the output directly, which fixes the bug, in some sense.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = CGI->new;

my $method = $q->request_method;
my $r = rand(1000000);
my $fh = $q->upload("file");
warn "fh is ",($fh ? "" : "not "),"defined";

if ($fh) {
#print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=output.txt\n";
    print "Content-type: text/plain\n";

print "\n";
    print "METHOD=$method\n";
    my @data =<$fh>;
    warn "data  = '",@data,"'";
    print @data;
    exit;
}

print <<ENDHTML;
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<body>
METHOD=$method
<form action="test.cgi?r=$r" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-dat
+a">
<input type="file" name="file"><input type="submit">
</form>
</html>
ENDHTML
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Re^4: CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?" by bcrowell2 (Friar) on May 28, 2007 at 02:31 UTC
Interesting! I guess it should have occurred to me to try it in different browsers before posting here in the first place. Neither galeon nor konqueror showed the weird behavior that firefox did. In any case, the Content-Disposition thingie works great for my purposes, so I've just gone ahead and put it in. Thanks, Joost -- you are a truly kind and enlightened perl monk!	[reply]