[ale] Anyone know about Safari?

[Scott Castaline]

Hmm the difference between crank start engines and electric start engines

On 10/2/18 4:33 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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