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When I use the RewriteEngine Like this in a .htaccess file the server sends an extra http header. I don't know why.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ cgi-bin/index.pl
The http header shows last on the page, like this:
HTTP/1.0... [my own header]
<html>
...
</html>
HTTP/1.1... [extra header]
(I'm using CGI.pm to create my own http header)
When accessing the perl script directly the extra header does not appear.
When I change the RewriteRule to redirect to a php-file instead of a perl file - no extra http header is sent.
Don't you think that that's strange?
Do anyone have a clue of what that may be wrong?
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Jim
The extra http header is only printed when the rewriterule goes to a nph script (non parsed headers). Like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ cgi-bin/nph-index.pl
Howerver, when looking in the docs [httpd.apache.org...] there are several examples using a nph script.
I don't understand why it's not working for me.
This is how my perl script looks like (copy from the Cgi.pm docs)
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
$q = new CGI;
print $q->header(),
$q->start_html(-title=>'Wow!'),
$q->h1('Wow!'),
'Look Ma, no hands!',
$q->end_html();
This is the output with the extra header last (in italic):
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><head><title>Wow!</title>
</head><body><h1>Wow!</h1>Look Ma, no hands!</body></html>[i]HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:06:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.46 OpenSSL/0.9.6g DAV/2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 PHP/4.3.2 mod_gzip/2.0.26.1a
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html[/i]
And, yes, I need it to be a non parsed headers script.
Does anyone have a clue of why the extra header is sent?
