Apache/Win 95 Irregularity

[Steve Holden]

Would anyone care to comment on why two (believed equivalent) programs give
different results on Linux and Windows?

Using a SPARC Red Hat 6.2 server with Apache/1.3.12 and Python 1.5.2 the
following cgi script shows a pretty Apache logo in the browser window:

#!/usr/bin/python
##
##  image.py: serve a GIF image
##
import sys, base64
o = open("/home/httpd/html/apache_pb.gif","rb").read()
sys.stdout.write('Content-Type: image/gif\r\n')
sys.stdout.write('Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n' % len(o))
sys.stdout.write(o)

Under Windows 95 using Apache/1.3.19 and ActivePython (original build) I get
something which IE 5.5 reports as being a 2326-byte GIF file containing a
259 x 32-pixel image whose appearance bears no relation to the Apache logo:

#!C:\Python20\python
##
##  image.py: serve a GIF image
##
import sys, base64
o = open("C:/Program Files/Apache
Group/Apache/htdocs/apache_pb.gif","rb").read()
sys.stdout.write('Content-Type: image/gif\r\n')
sys.stdout.write('Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n' % len(o))
sys.stdout.write(o)

In case it helps (since they are smallish) I have attached the two graphics
as imageLin.gif and ImageWin.gif respectivley.