Re: Content-type issue with application/json and application/javascript

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

apache converts ebcdic to utf-8 if the content type is text/... othervise
not.


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Matt Lavinder <
mlavinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have several CGI programs that generate javascript, usually JSON.  For
> years we have set the content type to text/plain or text/javascript.  I'd
> like to start using the more standard "application/json", but I am hitting
> a major snag.  The output is garbage.  I get the exact same output when I
> set the content-type to application/javascript.
>
> Just to verify this was related to CGI output, I used AddType to change the
> content-type of static JavaScript files to "application/javascript".  Those
> files look fine, so this must have something to do with it being CGI
> output.
>
> I don't really know what is up with the output, but I know it isn't
> EBCDIC.  It doesn't convert. Garbage in, garbage out.  Changing the content
> type back to text/javascript sets everything right.
>
> Anyone have any guesses what is going on here? We use CGIDEV2 under IBM i
> 7.1.  The default CCSID of our CGI jobs is 37.
>
> Just so we are clear on one thing.  We had the following settings in our
> HTTP Conf:
>
> DefaultFsCCSID 037
> CGIConvMode %%EBCDIC/EBCDIC%%
>
> I commented both settings out and it had no impact on the output
> whatsoever.  All of our CGI programs that use content type of "text/*"
> seemed to work.  The ones using "application/javascript" or
> "application/json" for content type still looked like garbage.  The only
> guess I have is that mod_cgi sees that the content-type starts with
> "application" and treats the output as binary, but I have no idea how I can
> tell mod_cgi to treat "application/javascript" as text, or if that is even
> the issue.
>
> I am hoping someone has an idea.  I know Apache pretty well, but this one
> has me stumped.
>
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> Matt
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