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a valid response for the client -- generally a 500 Internal Server Error message. Your CGI has the option of displaying full or partial headers. By default, CGI scripts should return only partial headers. 3.3.1.
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Partial Headers CGI scripts must output one of the following three headers: A Content-type header specifying cgi programming with perl o'reilly the media type of the content that will followA Location header specifying a URL to redirect the client toA Status header with a cgi http status code status that does not require additional data, such as 204 No Response Let's review each of these options. 3.3.1.1. Outputting documents The most common response for CGI scripts is to return HTML. A script must indicate to the
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server the media type of content it is returning prior to outputting any content. This is why all of the CGI scripts you have seen in the previous examples contained the following line: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; You can send other HTTP headers from a CGI script, but this header field is the minimum necessary in order to output a document. HTML documents are by no means the only form of media type that may be outputted by CGI
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scripts. By specifying a different media type, you can output any type of document that you can imagine. For example, Example 3-4 later in this chapter shows how to return a dynamic image. The two newlines at the end the Content-type header tell the web server that this is the last header line and that subsequent lines are part of the body of the message. This correlates to the extra CRLF that we discussed in the last chapter, which separates HTTP headers from the content body (see the upcoming sidebar, the sidebar "Line Endings"). Line Endings Many operating systems use different combinations of line feeds and carriage returns to represent the end of a line of text. Unix systems use a line feed; Macintosh systems use a carriage return; and Microsoft systems use both a carriage return and a line feed, often abbreviated as CRLF. HTTP headers require a CRLF as well -- each header line must end with a carriage return and a line feed. In Perl (on Unix), a line feed is represented as "\n", and a carriage return is represented as "\r". Thus, you may wonder why our previous examples have included this: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; and not this: print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"; The second format would work, but only if your script runs on Unix. Because Perl both began on Unix and has become a cross-platform
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date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] cgi programming with perl o'reilly pdf Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO All, I have been writing simple cgi scripts for a long time but have http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/cgi/ch03_03.htm never worried about the error codes. Now I have been asked to return a specific error and I have no idea how to do this. I do not even know if I should be returning an HTTP or https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2008-May/061761.html URL error. If I understand correctly, I am supposed to return something similar to say a 500 error. I think this is a HTTP error and I tried a few things but no luck. Thanks for the ideas. John Ertl Meteorologist FNMOC 7 Grace Hopper Ave. Monterey, CA 93943 (831) 656-5704 john.ertl at navy.mil Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1 Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). IESG Note This document is not a candidate for any level https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875 of Internet Standard. The IETF disclaims any knowledge of the fitness of this document for any http://www.lies.com/begperl/hello_cgi.html purpose, and in particular notes that it has not had IETF review for such things as security, congestion control or inappropriate interaction with deployed protocols. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion. Readers of this document should exercise caution in evaluating its value for implementation and deployment. Abstract The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple interface for running status code external programs, software or gateways under an information server in a platform-independent manner. Currently, the supported information servers are HTTP servers. The interface has been in use by the World-Wide Web (WWW) since 1993. This specification defines the 'current practice' parameters of the 'CGI/1.1' interface developed and documented at the U.S. National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. This document also defines the use of the CGI/1.1 interface on UNIX(R) and other, similar systems. Robinson & Coar Informational [Page 1] RFC 3875 CGI http status code Version 1.1 October 2004 Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1. Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3. Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Notational Conventions and Generic Grammar. . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1. Augmented BNF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2. Basic Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3. URL Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3. Invoking the Script . . . . . . .
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Content-type headers Now let's modify hello.pl so it will run as a CGI script. Every CGI script needs to output a special header as the first thing the script outputs. This header line is checked by the Web server, then passed on to the remote user invoking the script in order to tell that user's browser what type of file to expect. Most of the time, your script is going to output an HTML file, which means you'll need to output the following header: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; You need to output it exactly like that, including the capital "C" and the lowercase everything else. Please note that there are two newline characters (\n\n) at the end of the header. CGI novices tend to forget that, but it's really important, since the header needs to be followed by a blank line. So, adding that line to our hello.pl script gives us the following: #!/usr/bin/perl # hello.pl -- my first perl script! print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Hello, world!\n"; Return to the top of the page Here-document quoting As long as we're claiming this is HTML that we're outputting, let's go ahead and make our output a valid HTML file: #!/usr/bin/perl # hello.pl -- my first perl script! print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<"EOF";