cgi and headers

[Steve Holden]

kalin mintchev wrote:
> hi there...
> 
> i'm starting to work with python cgi scripts using ajax.
> one problem i have is that the cgi module doesn;t do (apparently) anything
> without the -- print "Content-type: text/html\n" -- line in the script.
> 
> the issue is that the output of the script has to be an xml file and not
> an html. it's not really a problem for any normal browser but the retarded
> explorer thing doesn;t process the xml unless it gets back the xml header.
> 
> so my scripts work fine on mozilla but not in explorer because of the
> missing xml header.
> 
> what would be the correct solution for this?
> 
> thanks....
> 
> 
> 
try "text/xml" or "text/html+xml" as content type. FWIW IE 6 actually 
required an extension of ".xml" on the output page to consider the page 
content to be XML, IIRC. IE 7 may be less broken, I haven't tried it 
much yet.

regards
  Steve

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