On Nov 1, 9:52 am, bluegray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a script that outputs html. It works fine in Firefox, > however, IE wants to download the file instead of displaying the > output. I keep getting the file download dialog instead of the html > page. > > I am doing something like this: > > print 'Content-Type: text/html ; charset=utf-8\nCache-Control: no-cache > \n' > print '<html><body>some text and html</body></html>' > > I also tried various things in .htaccess which has the following line: > > AddHandler cgi-script .py > > Any help will be appreciated.
Do you have the "shebang" listed at the top of your code (i.e. #!/path/ to/python)? Are you importing the cgi module at the top of your code? >From what I've read, you don't need to modify the htaccess file... See also: Tutorials: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lab2q/ http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html Docs: http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/sd99east/index.htm http://docs.python.org/lib/module-cgi.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
