Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-19 Thread Dan Shafer
AH, sure. Sorry for my response. I was having some Rev problems and that always makes me cranky. Dan On Aug 18, 2005, at 9:42 PM, jbv wrote: Dan, So I'm not sure what you mean by thanks for answering anyway implying that I'm wrong. Maybe you've uncovered contradictory information?

dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread jbv
Hi list, When using Rev cgi, when my script on the server sends some HTML code to the client, I use the following line : put Content-Type: text/html cr cr but when the code I want to send to the client is actually HTML + PHP code, how shall I transform this line in my cgi script ? Is it

Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread Dan Shafer
It's still text/html I think, JB. The PHP is embedded and the file extension PHP tells the server to execute PHP scripts inline but from the browser's perspective, I think it's still text/html. At least that's my finding from a quick look at a couple of PHP pages I generate. On Aug 18,

Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread jbv
Dan, even if the original file name was myFile.php ? Thanks for answering anyway... JB It's still text/html I think, JB. The PHP is embedded and the file extension PHP tells the server to execute PHP scripts inline but from the browser's perspective, I think it's still text/html. At

Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Yennie
JB- The content-type is independent of the language used on the server. It simply tells the browser the format of the data you are _sending_ to it. So if your script generates HTML, then it should tell the browser the content-type is text/html regardless of whether Rev or PHP is doing the

Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread jbv
Brian, Thanks for the answer... actually, I have generated various data formats through Rev cgi scripts (including pdf files that open Acrobat when a btn is clicked on a webpage), but as I'm not too familiar with php, I was wondering... Thanks again, JB JB- The content-type is independent

Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread Dan Shafer
Yes, regardless of the name of the file. I've checked three PHP references I have and they all say the same thing. PHP is viewed as embedded in an HTML page even when there are no HTML tags around. So if you're sending the browser a dynamically created page that contains -- or even

Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-18 Thread jbv
Dan, So I'm not sure what you mean by thanks for answering anyway implying that I'm wrong. Maybe you've uncovered contradictory information? Please don't be confused by my poor english... The important part of the sentence was thanks for answering. Tha actual meaning was : no matter