On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Aengus Lawlor wrote:
>
> I encountered a problem when I tried to use QV=1 to debug my
> configuration, but this seems to be a problem with the way Internet
> Enplorer handles URLs. Even though the the script sets the Content-Type:
> header properly, IE prompted me for a location to save the file, rather
> than displaying it in the browser. This happens on two machines that I
> tried it on (one with IE4, one with IE5), but two other machines
> displayed the qv=1 output in the browser (one with Netscape 3.x, and the
> other with IE5 on Windows 2000).
>
Jeremy Wadsack asked me to post this reply, because he's having trouble
posting to the list at the moment:
> This is a problem we've run into using Perl on NT servers. NT doesn't
> properly handle the content type header and tries to implement one based
> on what it thinks the file type of the document is (from the operating
> system point of view), so it probably sent a header like
> Content-type:application/perl instead of letting the cgi application
> handle it. (I think that Microsoft wants you to use ISAPI instead of CGI).
> The easiest way to handle this is to rename the script .cgi and then
> associate the 'cgi' extension with perl IN THE WEBSITE MANAGER. Don't
> associate this extension with anything in Windows Explorer or you'll just
> be back to the place you were before.
>
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