Re: Strange apache cgi error.

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:09:28AM -0400, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:56:23AM -0500, A. Konstam wrote:
> > On one of out apache servers whenever a cgi script is run it fails with
> > the following error in the error_log:
> > 
> > [Wed Jun 13 08:50:50 2001] [error] [client 131.194.131.60] Premature
> > end of script headers:
> > /users/akonstam/Local/HTML-Documents/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> > 
> > We are using apache-1.3.14-3
> > 
> > Does anyone understand what this error means and how to fix it?
> 
> This usually means that the CGI didn't output any headers before
> outputting the document itself.  You need to provide at least a
> Content-Type header, followed by a blank line to mark the end of
> the headers, and then the document itself.
> 
> In Perl:
> print("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
> 
> In Python:
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Nalin
This is the simple cgi script I was using which seems to be ok. It
works on other machines:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo ""
echo "This is test"

Can you see a mistake in its construction?
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