On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
>
> > Derek Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok so finally I got my page working, and it works for everyone except
> > > one of our junior administrators, who, rather than seeing the output of
> > > the perl script, gets a file box asking him to save the .pl file.
> >
> > Evidently the content-type is showing up funky. Does he get any
> > message about the type, such as in the title bar of the save-as
> > box?
>
> He disappeared so I can't really ask him, and his screen is locked... :(
> [Sometimes there are disadvantages to people doing what they're supposed
> to do...]
>
> I want to make it clear that I'm sending the appropriate header for
> text/plain and it works fine for EVERYBODY, except this one guy. So it's
> got to be a browser configuration issue... doesn't it?
Do you have to name it with suffix ".pl" ?
Are you envoking CGI via a <FORM ACTION=".../prog.pl" METHOD=... > or
via a direct hyperlink (<A HREF=".../prog.pl"> Click it </A>) ?
>From the user's behavior, I'd guess you are doing the latter way..
Can you pass it some bogus CGI arguments, querystring:
<A HREF="....prog.pl?foo=bar"> Click it </A>)
to help convince the browser this is a CGI action?
Karl
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