Re: Re: Html-template-users digest, Vol 1 #552 - 2 msgs

Arka,

Going back through the murky mists of my memories, several years ago
to my first encouter with CGI, I came across a IE - apache specific
problem.

It was a perl CGI running on apache with SSL. Occasionally, but not
every time, there was an error message which only occured with IE.
I didn't know anything about CGI / perl at the time, I googled some
and found a reference to incompatibilities between IE and apache.
However, in the last few years of CGI work, I've never come across the
problem again.

So, I've just had a quick google, and come across a description of the
problem - with solution - here
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,20373,00.asp

Unfortunately, the fix described requires the server admin to make a
configuration change.
As an example, here is the header which is sent to the browser, when
you look at a page on my site:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:05:47 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 PHP/4.1.2 PHP/3.0.17
mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.8.19 OpenSSL/0.9.6l
Set-Cookie: fig_CGISESSID=ba338462f251a165c9192f7cb6595f07; path=/;
expires=Thu, 31-Aug-2006 18:05:47 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Now, only the last line there is actually printed by my CGI,
everything before it is sent by apache, and out of the control of my
CGI program.
I said _unfortunately_, because your hosts might not want to make that
change. If you ask them, do send the link above, to explain your
problem to them.
And if they're not helpful, I can recommend a very good host :)
Myself, I have a big list of things to ask before moving to a new
host. I'll be adding this to the list, in case I ever have to move
again.

Hope this helps,
Carl


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