[ale] Anyone know about Safari?

[Jim Kinney]

Safari needs longer to recognize "Oh, yeah. That's a new web page I
need to render. Glad I got this blank line of time so I can start my
render engine."
On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 16:05 -0400, Charles Shapiro via Ale wrote:
> Nemmine, solved it.  You need two linefeeds after the "Content-Type:" 
> line:
> 
> print("Content-Type: text/html\n\n")
> 
> Then it works on all browsers.  Ugh.
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 3:58 PM Charles Shapiro <
> hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a  python 2.7 CGI script using the cgi module running inside
> > lighttpd on a raspberry pi.  It works fine in firefox, chrome, and
> > even the browser that comes with Windows 10 (edge?).  In Safari and
> > konquerer, the CGI runs fine but the browsers won't render the HTML
> > it prints.  Instead, these two browsers print the output of my
> > script as if it were text.  If I run cgi.test(), they render the
> > HTML correctly. If I purposely mung the python script ( I have
> > cgitb enabled), the errors render correctly. The correctly rendered
> > HTML and the HTML rendered as text both appear to lack headers as 
> > shown by view source in all browsers.  If I put my cgi-bin output
> > into a file named "foo.html", it renders correctly in all browsers
> > ( I presume they are deducing that it is HTML by the file
> > extension).   If I put a "Content-Type: text/html" line into my 
> > cgi-bin output, then firefox and others offer to download the
> > output of my script rather than displaying it ( it has no effect on
> > the behavior of Safari).  
> > 
> > The web is silent on this matter.  Has anyone here experienced
> > this?
> > 
> 
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