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firefox does not work with my simple http server

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I'm developing a simple http server. I can generate simple HTTP responses. IE displays the response properly; FF does not.

Here is the response: 

       "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" \

"Host: 127.0.0.1:80\r\n" \ "Date: %s\r\n" \ "Server: SimpleHTTPtutorial v0 %d\r\n" \ "Content-Type: text/html\r\n" \ "Content-Length: 44; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" \ "\r\n" \ "blahblah from %d

Does FF require something extra in order to interpret a page? FF responds with a blank page or says the connection was reset.

I'm developing a simple http server. I can generate simple HTTP responses. IE displays the response properly; FF does not. Here is the response: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" \ "Host: 127.0.0.1:80\r\n" \ "Date: %s\r\n" \ "Server: SimpleHTTPtutorial v0 %d\r\n" \ "Content-Type: text/html\r\n" \ "Content-Length: 44; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" \ "\r\n" \ "<html><body>blahblah from %d</body></html> Does FF require something extra in order to interpret a page? FF responds with a blank page or says the connection was reset.

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cor-el
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Looks that the content didn't get processed before it got send, i.e. convert "\r" to CR and "\n" to LF and substituting the %s and %d.

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