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Re: Sending 'status-code=204'.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Thu May 16 09:44:47 1996
Date: Thu, 16 May 96 09:31:41 EDT
From: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
To: 638net@medusa.es
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
"Domingo Siliceo" <638net@medusa.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to send a status-code 204 from a script that no contains any
> data to be shown in the html browser, so, I guess I should not define any
> content-type header in my script. This script might look like
>
> #tested under NTPerl 4.036 and EMWAC 0.991
>
> print "Status-Code=204\n\n";
>
> open FILE ">>momo.html";
> print FILE "Bon dia!\n";
> close (FILE);
>
> exit (0);
>
> I hope you get the idea.
Try changing the first line to:
print "Status: 204 No Content\n\n";
You did not say which server you're using, but the CGI interface expects
a "header" named "Status". As written, the script produces no headers
(you need a ':') and uses the wrong name anyway ("Status-Code").
Dave Kristol
