cgi binary stdout

[Steve Holden]

"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote ...
> Does anyone know how stdout should be configured in cgi scripts. It
> suddenly occurred to me that IIS/Apache running on win32 might not pass
> stdout configured as binary. Does the CGI script have to ensure that it
> is writing to a binary stream or can it assume the server does that?

Of course, this will depend to an extend on your server. However, I seem to
remember that if you want to do it it's relatively simple (ferkles in
codestash...) aah, yes, try this snippet I stole from MoinMoin:

    # force input/output to binary
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        import msvcrt
        msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdin.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
        msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)

regards
 Steve
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