Cgi help - malformed header from script. Bad header

[Rob Ellis]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:01:21AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> FBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10, Apache2.
> 
> My first cgi-bin program.
> I have the following files in /usr/local/www/cgi-bin:
> Cal (-rwxr-xr-x)
> Calendar (-rw-r--r-- typical calendar file to display 'today in
> history')
> 
> Cal contains the following lines:
> #!/bin/sh
> echo Content-type: text/plain
> /usr/bin/calendar
> ------
> If I cd to /usr/loca/www/cgi-bin, and do ./cal,
> I get the echo, plus the expected output.
> 
> When I request, http://howse.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/cal
> I get an Internal Server Error.
> The error logfile says:
> Malformed header from script. Bad header=Oct 1	Jimmy Carter born,
> 192,:cal
> 
> ScriptAlias is defined properly in httpd.conf, and I get the proper
> output from test-cgi.
> 
> I've read the Apache2 documentation on CGI, and troubleshooting errors,
> no joy.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 

you need a blank line after the content-type header:

> #!/bin/sh
> echo Content-type: text/plain
  echo
> /usr/bin/calendar
  
- rob