Question on implementing scripts and programs thru WWW????
    Peter Murray 
    pem at po.CWRU.Edu
       
    Wed Dec 27 10:43:11 EST 1995
    
    
  
On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, David G. Risner wrote:
> You should make sure that the very first thing you send to stdout is the
> line:
> 
> Content-Type: text/html
> 
> This is the Mime header for an html file.  It tells the server what you
> are serving up.
Actually, more accurately, you should send the Content-Type header 
followed by a blank line:
  printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
And I think the "Content-type" header is telling the web browser, not the 
server, the type of document that follows.
Peter
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