Question on implementing scripts and programs thru WWW????

[David G. Risner]

On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, John Lee wrote:

> I am trying to implement my first C program thru the NSCA WEB server. 
> The program compiles fine and I can run it at a unix promp and it works
> fine but when I try to access it thru the my browser netscape 1.2 I get  a
> window that comes up and so "Document contains no Data". All the C
> program is doing is building a html docuement and including a counter.
> I have run some simple scripts out of the cgi-bin directory So I know it
> sees the directory

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.

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David G. Risner                                         dgrisner at netcom.com
Southwestern University School of Law Library               Los Angeles, CA
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