Working with CGI

• Your script must return something to the browser, usually HTML

• MIME headers:

  • Content-Type: text/html
  • Content-Length: 1243

• Blank line

• HTML code

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The blank line between the headers and the results is required regardless of the MIME headers used.

Content-Length is optional. Content-Type is required by the spec (and generally assumed to be text/html if omitted anyway).