Exercise 8.1 clarification

fliker09

One thing I would like to clarify - what is the purpose of:

echo -e "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"

?

From what I understand - it is destined for browser, but I actually get it on the page like:

Content-type: text/plain


File is bar

 

Am I misunderstanding something?

lee42x

The echo command causes the string to be printed rather than interpeted by the browser. This is the cgi script exicuting.