Re: Iceweasel

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Quoth Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:45:36PM +0200, Sebastian Tennant
> <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> was heard to say:
>> Tinkering with Scheme and CGI...
>> 
>> Iceweasel _insists_ on asking me what I want to do with 'foo.scm' (save
>> it to disk or whatever).
>> 
>> Neither IE6 nor Firefox (in Windoze) ask me this question, they simply
>> render the intended output.
>> 
>> Of course, it _could_ be my server; lighttpd, but I doubt it.
>> 
>> Does anyone know if lighttpd behaves differently according to which
>> client is making the request?  Surely not, but...
>
>   Are you sending back the right Content-Type?  If you're generating an
> HTML document, you need to send back a Content-Type of text/html in the
> reply headers.  (I don't recall the exact syntax, but your CGI
> programming documentation should mention this somewhere)
>
>   If you don't send a Content-Type yourself, the server and/or Web
> browser will guess at how to handle the page, which tends to result in
> the symptoms you describe.

Thanks Daniel.  That was precisely the problem.  I was using text/text
rather than text/plain :-)

Good ol' IceWeasel for making me do the right thing :-)

Sebastian