I am devaloping a web site usign Perl CGI on IIS / W2K.
The system works fine when Clients are using IE on Windows, but Mac users
get an error message that say it does not recognize ".PL"

Also when Client's Browser is Firefox they receive a ftp prompt and the
program file is being send to the client!!!

Any help is appreciated.

Re: Mac Users cannot access perl CGI by John

John
Thu Jun 16 11:55:12 CDT 2005

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:51:35 -0400, "GMI" <Admin@GoMonitor.com> wrote:


>I am devaloping a web site usign Perl CGI on IIS / W2K.
>The system works fine when Clients are using IE on Windows, but Mac users
>get an error message that say it does not recognize ".PL"
>
>Also when Client's Browser is Firefox they receive a ftp prompt and the
>program file is being send to the client!!!
>
>Any help is appreciated.

Firefox doesn't recognize the file type so it's default is to download
the file. I don't know much about Firefox but there is some stuff in
google about firefox and downloads.

John Cesta

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Re: Mac Users cannot access perl CGI by David

David
Thu Jun 16 14:56:03 CDT 2005

Use a network sniffer like Network Monitor or Ethereal and post a response
that "works" with IE and one that does not work with Mac or FireFox.

My guess is that your CGI is not sending Content-Type response header
correctly, causing some browsers to want to download the content instead of
displaying it (i.e. your CGI is causing error-condition handling on the
browsers, so behaviors are all different).

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I am devaloping a web site usign Perl CGI on IIS / W2K.
The system works fine when Clients are using IE on Windows, but Mac users
get an error message that say it does not recognize ".PL"

Also when Client's Browser is Firefox they receive a ftp prompt and the
program file is being send to the client!!!

Any help is appreciated.