Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

[Bill Page]

Camm Maguire wrote:

> Bill Page <address@hidden> writes:
>  
>
> > Ok, problem solved (I think). It turned out not to be so exotic an issue.
> > I modified the web server program as follows:
> >
> > -    (format s "HTTP/1.1 ~S~%" (if fn 404 500))
> > +    (format s "HTTP/1.1 ~S~%" (if fn 200 404 ))
> Thanks!  This is just what we need -- an html guy!
>  
Well, ah ...

> > If I understand HTTP correctly "404" in the header means "file not found".
> > "200" means "ok". "500" means server error. So we were both saying
> > "file not found" but then delivering the file anyway. If that's the case
> > then it is surprizing that FireFox worked and not surprizing that IE closes
> > the socket connection before we can send the file.
> >
> > With this change both FireFox and IE now seem to work reliable
> > and identically for me.
> >
> > Anyway, I will take a closer look at the HTTP standard to make sure
> > that our headers are correct and complete.
For quick reference here is a very easy introdution to HTTP:

 http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http


 HTTP Made Really Easy


   A Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers

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Bill Page.