Re: send_http_header and subrequests

[Doug MacEachern <do...@covalent.net>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

> 	The second example on p. 128 of the Eagle book sets the content
> 	type and send the HTTP headers itself before running a
> 	subrequest.
> 
> 	However, on p. 468, the documentation for the run() method says
> 	in part:
> 
> 		When you invoke the subrequest's response handler in
> 		this way, it will do everything a response handler is
> 		supposed to, includinf sendinf the HTTP headers and the
> 		document body. ...  If you arevoking the subrequest
> 		urn() method from within your own content handler, you
> 		must not sen the HTTP headers and document body
> 		yourself ...
> 
> 	These seem to contradict each other.  From testing, however, it
> 	seems as though the example on p. 128 is correct and the
> 	documentation on p. 468 isn't.  Is this true?

right, subrequest->run does not output headers.
 
> 		my $sub_r = $r->lookup_file( $full_path );
> 		my $status = $sub_r->status();
> 		unless ( $status == DOCUMENT_FOLLOWS ) {
> 			$r->log_error( "Can't look up $full_path" );
> 			return $status;
> 		}
> 		$r->send_http_header( $sub_r->content_type() );

does it help if you change that to:

$sub_r->send_http_header;

?