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Re: Off-topic : CGI



On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Leonid Igolnik - LiM wrote:

LIL> |AFAIK, cgi must generate 
LIL> |{META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">}
LIL> |string (witjout braces) in head of each html output.
LIL>  no need to do it, "Content type: text/html\n\n" would do it/

In fact, it should never generate it, certainly not as header of CGI
output, but also not as HTML text, if possible. No browser currently on
marked proceeds COntent-Type META's according to the W3C specs. If you can
avoid using it - avoid. If you can't - try to avoid it too.
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