Re: Binary Data

Hi Jay:
Thanks for the response, I use the browser only as an example, my client could be any application and not necessarily a browser,what i am really wondering about is how to return this binary font/glyph data that my fastcgi application generates back to the caller (caller can be a flex/air/php/perl application or anything else), meaning:

1) How can I set the mime type correctly in my fastcgi application so that any of the clients mentioned above  can receive and embed this binary font/glyph data into their documents.
2) Are there limitations in fastcgi where I could only send back chunks of the data at a time (if its a large font/glyph)?


Bear with me I am venturing into uncharted territory here.
Thanks in advance
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:05:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] Binary Data
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

You're creating something new so there won't be an existing content type for it.
You'll have to create one and tell the browser what to do with it when it receives it.

Here's the help for that option in firefox


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <[email protected]> wrote:






Its definitely not an image,its actually open type font and other types of fonts and glyph data, additionally I want to return a character buffer through stdout back to the caller (meaning I am not actually returning a file but a stream containing this character buffer containing binary data).




Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:51:17 -0500
Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] Binary Data
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]


The content type should match the file type.
If it's a gif image you use 'Content-type: image/gif''
What kind of file is "font and glyph" data?  Is this a true type font?




On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <[email protected]> wrote:






Hi Folks:
I'm interested in rendering binary font and glyph data dynamically from a service written in C and fastcgi using Apache, I was wondering what the correct mime_type for this should be in my fastcgi application, currently I have the following:



FCGX_FPrintF(out,"Content-type: application/octet-stream\r\nStatus: 200 OK\r\n\r\n");

Is this correct, whenever I call my fastcgi app the browser immediately asks me what to do with my fastcgi application instead of executing it and rendering the dynamic font and glyph data.




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