Re: [htmltmpl] Re: Html-template-users digest, Vol 1 #552 - 2 msgs
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From: Carl F. <fir...@gm...> - 2005-09-05 18:14:59
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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=3Dba338462f251a165c9192f7cb6595f07; path=3D/; expires=3DThu, 31-Aug-2006 18:05:47 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dutf-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 |