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list James Wade · Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:00:55 -0600 · 
I need some help. I've searched the Archives for a solution,

but I haven't been able to find one.

 
When I click on "Client data Available", I get a pop up window

saying "Unknown File Type".  I open the file with word, and

everything looks fine, except no HTML headers or footers.

 
Everything else is working, and this function was working.

It just stopped. I've double checked my httpd.conf in apache,

and I haven't changed it since the original install. (I added

all the AddHandlers, etc. as described in the install docs)

 
I've checked privileges, and I haven't changed those either

since the original install. I can execute the hobbitsvc.cgi

script and it gives me:

 
Content-type: text/html

 
<html><head><title>Invalid request</title></head>

<body>Invalid request</body></html>

 
I've seen this problem reported in the lists, but with no

definite fix action.

 
Help would really be appreciated. Has anyone else seen

this just stop working and not recognizing the File Type?

 
When you open the Doc, all the information is there, but

the HTML headers are not. I suspect that the hobbitsvc.cgi

script is not pulling the HTML headers, but I also checked

and they are there.

 
Thanks..James
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:37:41 +0100 ·
▸ quoted from James Wade
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:00:55PM -0600, James Wade wrote:

When I click on "Client data Available", I get a pop up window
saying "Unknown File Type".  I open the file with word, and
everything looks fine, except no HTML headers or footers.
The client data is a plain-text document.
▸ quoted from James Wade
Everything else is working, and this function was working.
It just stopped. I've double checked my httpd.conf in apache,
and I haven't changed it since the original install. (I added
all the AddHandlers, etc. as described in the install docs)

I've checked privileges, and I haven't changed those either
since the original install. I can execute the hobbitsvc.cgi
script and it gives me:
To really execute it, you need to set the environment variables that
your webserver normally provides. I.e.

   REQUEST_METHOD=GET \
   SCRIPT_NAME=bb-hostsvc.sh \
   QUERY_STRING="CLIENT=my.host.name" \
   ~hobbit/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh

You'll see then that it begins with

   Content-type: text/plain

   client voodoo,hswn,dk.linux
   [date]
   Fri Nov 10 07:25:36 CET 2006

so your browser is getting a "text/plain" document back, and for some
reason will not render this by itself.


Apparently, this happens *sometimes* with Internet Explorer. I don't
know what causes it, though - my guess is some policy setting that only
permits text/html to be rendered in the browser.


Regards,
Henrik