[FASTCGI] Binary Data

[Saikat Kanjilal]

Hi Jay:
Thanks for the response


the fastcgi application returns a header that tells about the content. It consists of the content-type and the size.
It would look something like this:
 print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";


I already understand this and am using the above line 
in my program, however what I am asking is whether I need
to set the Content-type to text/html or something else when
returning font or glyph type binary data





2) Are there limitations in fastcgi where I could only send back chunks of the data at a time (if its a large font/glyph)?


Not in fastcgi. The limitations are more
practical. Sending really really large files tends to fail. A font is
probably not going to be a problem.


Again just so I'm clear I'm not sending back any files, I am sending
back a stream containing a character buffer containing the glyph 
and font data.


Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:08:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] Binary Data
From: jsprenkle at gmail.com
To: sxk1969 at hotmail.com



On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1969 at hotmail.com> wrote:






Hi Jay:
Thanks for the response, I use the browser only as an example, my client could be any application and not necessarily a browser,what i am really wondering about is how to return this binary font/glyph data that my fastcgi application generates back to the caller (caller can be a flex/air/php/perl application or anything else), meaning:


1) How can I set the mime type correctly in my fastcgi application so that any of the clients mentioned above  can receive and embed this binary font/glyph data into their documents.
the fastcgi application returns a header that tells about the content. It consists of the content-type and the size.

It would look something like this:
 print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
        print "Hello, World.";
There are many example on the web if you use google. Search for 'content-type' and cgi. There's no difference between what is done for fastcgi and cgi.


 
2) Are there limitations in fastcgi where I could only send back chunks of the data at a time (if its a large font/glyph)?


Not in fastcgi. The limitations are more practical. Sending really really large files tends to fail. A font is probably not going to be a problem.


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