Re: complaint about CGI
Rob McCool (robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Wed, 16 Mar 1994 02:24:22 --100
/*
* Re: complaint about CGI by Markus Stumpf
* written on Mar 6, 5:25pm.
*
* Could we also have some support for the HTTP response the server
* will send?
*
* It would really be nice to be able to have a CGI script generate
* e.g. a FORBIDDEN message.
* All I managed to produce so far is to send back some HTML document
* that says forbidden but the server still tells OK.
How about a header line
Status: xxx mmm
where xxx is the 3 digit HTTP status code, and mmm is the message, such as
Forbidden.
* When trying to implement e.g. proxy gateways via CGI scripts
* this is really needed I think or otherwise we can't have a
* transparent handling of the data.
*
* Or is it already there and I didn't notice that?
*/
It's not.
--Rob