complaint about CGI

ts (decoux@moulon.inra.fr)
Wed, 16 Mar 1994 07:27:58 --100


> Rob suggested:
> >Status: xxx mmm
> >
> >where xxx is the 3 digit HTTP status code, and mmm is the message, such as
> >Forbidden.
>
> I don't have a problem with this being added, but it isn't strictly
> necessary as you can output any code you want if you write an
> nph- script.
>
>

I write nph-script only to send, sometimes, code different from 200 and
301.

It's really easy to send only a header line "Status: xxx mmm", rather than
send all header lines ("MIME-Version", "Content-type", "Content-length", ...)

Guy Decoux