[Image-SIG] StringIO seems to garble images in cgi

[Georg Mischler]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Georg Mischler wrote:
>
> > > > try:
> > > >     print 'Content-Type: image/jpeg\n'
> >
> >
> > Another possibility is that the missing second '\n' here
> > causes the server to send garbage. You need an empty line
> > between the HTTP headers and the data.
>
> but the print statement adds an extra newline by
> itself, right?


There's a point to that...

I got confused by the mixed use of print and sys.stdout.write.
But then, maybe Python got confused by the same thing, as was
mentioned earlier about the -u parameter in the hashbang.

I'd recommend not to mix those two, just to be on the safe side.


-schorsch

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