RE: Browser tries to download program -- WEB400

OK, got it....

I didn't think whitespace before the "Content-type"... would make a
difference.  When I removed the whitespace and simply started the section
with a 'C', it worked.


Thank you all for your help!



-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mike Skvarenina
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:19 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Browser tries to download program

Aaron,

When you say to put it in the top of my CGIDEV2 template, are you saying it
needs to be in one of my HTML sections, basically the one that starts off a
page?

I tried this and now when I view the source on my web page (as served from
the Original server), I see what's below.  Trying to load the same page
using the Apache instance, still pops up the "file download" box...




Content-Type: text/html


<html>
<head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
...rest of my web page...





-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:05 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Browser tries to download program

The HTTP headers have to be the first thing you send out.  Put this in
the top of your CGIDEV2 template:

Content-Type: text/html

<html><head></head><body></body></html>


Make sure you press enter twice after the Content-Type: line.

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:54 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Browser tries to download program

Hmmm,  SO what exactly am I suppose to to?  I added the following to my
HTML, right after the beginning of the <head> section but the browser is
still not interpreting my pages as HTML


<head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">




-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Lee
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:30 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Browser tries to download program

HTML pages are sent to the browser from the web server as a HTTP
response message. A HTTP response message includes 2 sections. The first
section is the message header and consists on zero or more headers,
probably the most commonly used of which is the "Content-type" header.
The header section is followed by 2 CRLFs, which are followed by the
message body. In your case the message body is an HTML document. However
if there is no "Content-type" header the browser doesn't know that the
message body is a HTML document, and since the extension is not .htm,
.html, or something else that indicates that the message body is a HTML
document, the browser doesn't know how to handle the message body and
asks you where to save it. 

Strictly speaking the "Content-type" section isn't part of the HTML,
though it is sent to the browser. It probably worked before because the
IBM HTTP server (not based on APACHE) checked for a "Content-type"
header and added one if it didn't exist. On the browser side you still
won't see the "Content-type" section, however you should see the
document as an HTML page in the browser, instead of a download.

Joe Lee

p.s. If you want to find out more about the HTTP messages take a look at
RFC 2616.

>>> mskvarenina@xxxxxxx 10/21/2004 19:32:50 >>>
Finally, any additional thoughts on my problem?  My previous HTML didn't
have a content type section.  I don't know how that would effect the web
server itself as opposed to the browser.  For example does the web
server itself read the HTML then do something different/special when it
sees a content type directive?




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