MSIE mime type problem 2

[MMage]

Hi, I have I problem that I've quickly found out is anything but unique to me. I have have a CGI program written in Perl. It executes fine in netscape but not in IE. Though I know IE tries to save it instead of displaying because of the way it handles mime types, I haven't found an explaination of how to fix the problem. Any help in this matter would be appreciated.

 

[MorpheusNL]

you have set the mimetype in the header of the CGI ?

like :
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1


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Maurits

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[MMage]

Yes, I have it set as text/plain. It's actually the printenv.pl file that comes with apache. It works fine in Netscape, but not in MSIE.

What I'm really asking is is their anyway besides defining your own mime type to make MSIE handle the output correctly? For instance a text file that has html tags in it?

Here is a copy of the printenv.pl file:

#!c:/Perl/bin/Perl.exe
##
## printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment
##

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
$val = $ENV{$var};
$val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
$val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";
}


As you can see it's pretty simple.

 

[MorpheusNL]

A text file with html tags in it should be text/html.

When you test it from another computer does it show up the same ?


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Maurits

~ There is no place like 127.0.0.1 ~

 

[sleipnir214]

It seems that IE won't ever completely ignore file extensions.

I get the same behavior when pulling up a web script with a .pl extension. However, IE will display the output of the same script if that script has a .cgi extension.

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[MMage]

The .cgi trick worked. Thanx.

I think; however, I'm going to ask microsoft if there is a way to disable this behavior. If I make any progress I'll post a tip to this forum, because I know I'm not the only one who has had this problem.