You're missing the "Content-Type:" header.

...

Without the content-type header, there's no way it's going to work in a CGI environment.

That's not entirely true. His code is perfectly valid ... for HTTP/0.9, running under some webservers. In fact, sending headers would be an error under HTTP/0.9. (current versions of Apache will strip them out for you, so you don't need to detect that case)

I've just re-read the HTTP/1.1 specs, and I can't find any mention of Content-Type being required. The only 'MUST' that I see is for sending Content-Length on a request with a message body. (eg, POST). Even if that were not the case, all headers were optional in previous versions

The following is a perfectly acceptable response, should you give it a useful message body:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

<html> ... </html>

[download]

The important factor is the blank line to seperate the headers from the body -- but personally, I'd just stick with using CGI or some other toolkit to generate the appropriate headers.

In reply to Re^3: Debugging without shell access? by jhourcle
in thread Debugging without shell access? by hesco

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