G-Wan perl header for gif file types

Question

I've created a perl script c.pl

print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
...    
and
...
exit 200;

output is :

Content-type: image/gif GIF89an

... this is wrong. it seems to generate output of Content-type: text/html prior...

how can I make it output as image/gif header?

Answer 1

The default Content-type HTTTP header is text/html. But you can (and here should) change it - either by using CGI variables or by writting your HTTP headers from your script.

G-WAN comes with many examples doing that, see fractal.c.