dumb cgi question

[jbv]

Brian,

Thanks for the answer...

actually, I have generated various data formats through Rev cgi
scripts (including pdf files that open Acrobat when a btn is clicked
on a webpage), but as I'm not too familiar with php, I was wondering...

Thanks again,
JB

> JB-
>
> The content-type is independent of the language used on the server. It
> simply tells the browser the format of the data you are _sending_ to
> it. So if your script generates HTML, then it should tell the browser
> the content-type is "text/html" regardless of whether Rev or PHP is
> doing the work.
>
> Likewise, if your Rev script was generating a JPEG, it would return
> "image/jpeg".
>
> Technically, the same script can return any number of differnt
> content-types, it is just telling the browser "here comes data in this
> format".
>
> HTH
>
> Brian
>
> >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > even if the original file name was "myFile.php" ?
> >
> > Thanks for answering anyway...
> > JB
> >
> >> It's still text/html I think, JB. The PHP is embedded and the file
> >> extension PHP tells the server to execute PHP scripts inline but from
> >> the browser's perspective, I think it's still text/html.
> >>
> >> At least that's my finding from a quick look at a couple of PHP pages
> >> I generate.
> >>
> >> On Aug 18, 2005, at 9:17 AM, jbv wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi list,
> >>>
> >>> When using Rev cgi, when my script on the server sends some HTML code
> >>> to the client, I use the following line :
> >>>
> >>>     put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr & cr
> >>>
> >>> but when the code I want to send to the client is actually HTML + PHP
> >>> code,
> >>> how shall I transform this line in my cgi script ?
> >>>
> >>> Is it "application/php" or "text/php" or... ?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> JB
> >>>
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