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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] httpd and cgi
From:       Chris Simmonds <chris () 2net ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-04-28 14:16:22
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Hi Steven,

The problem is not with the HTTP/1.0 line: you tell the browser the type 
with the "Content-type" tag. The default is text/plain, which is 
displayed as you describe. In your case you need

    Content-type: text/html

Chris.


Steven Scholz wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I want an cgi script to generate a vaild html page that than is send 
> to the browser.
>
> But I noticed that busybox' httpd itself is prepending an "HTTP/1.0 
> 200 OK\n" if this is not contained in the buffer return from the cgi 
> script.
>
> line 1150:
>           if (firstLine) {
>             /* check to see if the user script added headers */
>             if (strncmp(buf, "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n", 4) != 0) {
>               bb_full_write(s, "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n", 16);
>             }
>             if (strstr(buf, "ontent-") == 0) {
>               bb_full_write(s, "Content-type: text/plain\n\n", 26);
>             }
>             firstLine=0;
>           }
>
> And that "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n" apparently causes my browser to display 
> the html stuff as text instead of interpreting them.
>
> So instead of viewing a nice web page created by the cgi script I only 
> see the source code of it.
>
> Is that normal, standard behaviour in handling CGI?
> How can I work around this httpd "feature"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steven
>
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