Re^2: CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?"

AFAICT, the situation is that Firefox is trying to reload the page when you do a Save As. I think that would explain the difference in behavior between my script and your system 'uptime' script. Yours will reload (and give a later time), whereas mine won't work when you try to reload it, because it needs the file upload from the first script.

Fiction_word_to_txt is just a wrapper for wvWare, plus a little bit of extra code for text-munging of wvWare's output.

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Re^3: CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?" by naikonta (Curate) on May 29, 2007 at 09:11 UTC
the situation is that Firefox is trying to reload the page when you do a Save As It sounds making sense. Too bad I can't find any reference regarding this from the net. It's just when loading the uptime script then doing Save As, my access log only shows single transaction log. LiveHTTPHeders also confirms this single transaction. Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!	[reply]
Re^4: CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?" by Joost (Canon) on Jun 01, 2007 at 22:25 UTC
I think firefox tries to print whatever page with the same url was retrieved using a GET request from its cache, and if it doesn't have that page in the cache it does a new GET request. That's why I used the random parameter in my test script to force unique URLs for each request (see my post above). "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]