Cgi help - malformed header from script. Bad header

[Jeff MacDonald]

put another echo after the first one.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rob Ellis
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:21 AM
>> To: Charles Howse
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Cgi help - malformed header from script. Bad header
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:01:21AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > FBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10, Apache2.
>> > 
>> > My first cgi-bin program.
>> > I have the following files in /usr/local/www/cgi-bin:
>> > Cal (-rwxr-xr-x)
>> > Calendar (-rw-r--r-- typical calendar file to display 'today in
>> > history')
>> > 
>> > Cal contains the following lines:
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> > echo Content-type: text/plain
>> > /usr/bin/calendar
>> > ------
>> > If I cd to /usr/loca/www/cgi-bin, and do ./cal,
>> > I get the echo, plus the expected output.
>> > 
>> > When I request, http://howse.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/cal
>> > I get an Internal Server Error.
>> > The error logfile says:
>> > Malformed header from script. Bad header=Oct 1	Jimmy 
>> Carter born,
>> > 192,:cal
>> > 
>> > ScriptAlias is defined properly in httpd.conf, and I get 
>> the proper 
>> > output from test-cgi.
>> > 
>> > I've read the Apache2 documentation on CGI, and troubleshooting 
>> > errors, no joy.
>> > 
>> > How can I fix this?
>> > 
>> 
>> you need a blank line after the content-type header:
>> 
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> > echo Content-type: text/plain
>>   echo
>> > /usr/bin/calendar
>>   
>> - rob
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