Apache 2.0.44 offers download instead of executing Batch File

You win the prize. OK there's no prize, but your solution is the one that
worked.

Thanks!

Rach


"Si Ballenger" <shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net> wrote in message
news:3f0a8c90.236169033@news.comporium.net...
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 02:51:32 GMT, "rach"
> <kjkfjgndfjg.fgdfg@dfgdnfgdf.net> wrote:
>
> >Yeap, test.pl:
> >
> >#!e:\Programs\Perl\bin\perl.exe
> >@echo off
> >echo Content-Type: text/plain
> >echo.
> >echo Hello, world!
> >
> >And, test.bat
> >@echo off
> >echo Content-Type: text/plain
> >echo.
> >echo Hello, world!
> >
> >test.bat works with the ? at the end (sometimes) and test.pl just dumps
> >with: "aborted due to compilation errors."
> >
> >Rach
>
> Possible problems:
> 1) You need to have perl setup inorder to run perl scripts.
> 2) The line of text in your .bat file does not have html
> formatting.
> 3) Anything after a ? will be passed to stdin on the webserer
> computer as the enviromental variable query_string.
>
> Copy the below, paste in notepad, and save in the cgi-bin folder
> as htm.bat. AMake a link to it and see how it runs.
>
> ==========htm.bat below=============
>
> @Echo OFF
> Echo Content-type: text/html
> Echo.
> Echo ^<HTML^>
> Echo ^<HEAD^>
> Echo ^<TITLE^>Script Command start-zoom^</title^>
> Echo ^</head^>
> Echo ^<BODY^>
> Echo ^<H1^>Start-zoom Results^</h1^>
> Echo Initiating command now:
> Echo /////////////////////
> ECHO It works!
> Echo /////////////////////
> Echo Report any failures to:
> Echo ^<A Href="mailto:me@home.now"^>me@home.now^</a^>.
> Echo ^</body^>
> Echo ^</html^>
>