The following reply was made to PR general/3322; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Robert Dickow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/3322: server corrupting cgi output for octet-streams
Date: 01 Nov 98 09:24:48 -0800
>First, please tell us what Apache version you are using.
>"2.0" doesn't exist. It is very hard to help you when you
>do not include valid information in your PR!
Oh. No wonder things aren't going right for me! ;-) It turns
out it is version 1.3.2
>Second, what language is your CGI script in? How is it sending
>it? Give an example.
Here is my PERL script. Maybe I need to put some other MIME
header information in there?
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#!\perl\bin\perl
# This simple program sends a file over HTTP as a binary file.
# Script by Bob Dickow
require "cgi-lib.pl";
MAIN:
{
&ReadParse;
$filename = "nwhsforms/" . $in{FILETYPE};
unless (open(INFILE, $filename)) {
exit;
}
print STDOUT &MyPrintHeader($in{FILETYPE});
$c = getc(INFILE);
while (eof(INFILE) == 0) {
print STDOUT $c;
$c = getc(INFILE);
}
}
sub MyPrintHeader {
return "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="\n\n";
}
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Bob Dickow ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
