serving html from a python script in IE

bluegray

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.

Nov 1 '07 #1

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kyosohma

On Nov 1, 9:52 am, bluegray <bluegraydra...@gmail.comwrote:

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...

Nov 1 '07 #2

Richard Brodie

"bluegray" <fr************@gmail.comwrote in message
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print "Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml

That's your problem. You can't use that Mime type
because IE doesn't support XHMTL. No "appendix C"
hair splitting comments, please.

Nov 1 '07 #3

J. Cliff Dyer

bluegray 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.

If you take out the space between text/html and ; it works just fine.

(In other words, there is no mime-type "text/html ")

Cheers,
Cliff

Nov 1 '07 #4

bluegray

If you take out the space between text/html and ; it works just fine.

>
(In other words, there is no mime-type "text/html ")

Thanks! That did it. What a difference a space makes ;)

Nov 1 '07 #5

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