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The specified CGI application misbehaved

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tdrclan

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Sep 18, 2007
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I'm told that this might be a configuration problem.
(was suggested I post it here)

I have a html page that is generating the following error:

"The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are."

the page is a html page (no asp, vb code) with a link to a .exe patch download.
when I try to download the patch I get the error.
the patch is >100+ kb, smaller patches <56kb download ok.(from the same page)
when I look at the task manager on the web server I see the large patch running as a process, can't say the same for the smaller ones(have not check this).

these patchs downloaded ok prior to adding asp pages to the web site and uploading the web site to the server . not sure if the asp page are the cause, I did a full upload not the normal incremental and the patch pages did not get refreshed until now.

the asp pages are(standard .asp) (not .net .aspx) they are written in VB and are links off the main page (patch pages are links off the main page as well) but I don't see how they would effect a standard http page.
the asp page have a cascade stylesheet (.css)
(planning to add cascade stylesheet to the main page and patch pages, but have not got to it.)

here is the asp css code.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="GameStyleSheet1.css">

any thoughts??

note:
I've seen where one should add
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n\n";
but this is Perl code, correct??
why should I add perl to html or vb?

note:
the use of the term "patch pages" refers to html pages that have links to downloadable software patches (exe, zip, etc) and/or links to other html pages with other patches or instructions.
 
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