How to send text/html data to a browser - php

Question

Hi i asked a question before here : how-can-i-integrate-php-with-my-http-server
i programmed a personal web server and i tried to integrate it with PHP using the PHP-CGI , i run a system command ("PHP-CGI.exe path/to/php/script.php getvar=getValue") and i send the outputs to the browser , everything works cool except that the output shows in the browser as plain/text page like :
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.14 Set-Cookie:
PHPSESSID=9rurvleetdkucms44i4cac9a14; path=/ Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981
08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate,
post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Content-type: text/html
ID value = AAAA< /h1>
here's the PHP script :
<?php
session_start();
echo "< h1>ID value = < /h1>". $_GET['id'];
?>
and the command i used : php-cgi html_doc/index.php id=AAAA
my question is : why does it send data in plain/text instead of text/html i want?!
and why does it show the header information in the browser like above ?!
Thank you all in advance!
(Notice : i seperated < h1>so it can be appeared!)

Answer 1

this is a BASIC html_to_browser using C sockets
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <strings.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
char *reply =
"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n"
"Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:27:04 GMT\n"
"Server: Apache/2.2.3\n"
"Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:05:58 GMT\n"
"ETag: \"56d-9989200-1132c580\"\n"
"Content-Type: text/html\n"
"Content-Length:156\n"
"Accept-Ranges: bytes\n"
"Connection: close\n"
"\n"
"o EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GRANDE ___2 \n \r\n\r\n"
"THIS IS A HTTP RESPONSE TO BROWSER \n USING C SOCKETS _ \\_t 5 \n \r\n\r\n"
"\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nNOT FINISHED AA _3\r\n\r\n";
int sd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
struct sockaddr_in addr;
bzero(&addr, sizeof(addr));
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(80);
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
if(bind(sd,(struct sockaddr*)&addr,sizeof(addr))!=0){
printf("bind error\n");
}
if (listen(sd, 16)!=0){
printf("listen error\n");
}
while(1){
socklen_t size = sizeof(addr);
int client = accept(sd,(struct sockaddr*)&addr, &size);
if (client > 0)
{
printf("client connected\n");
/*send(client, reply, sizeof(reply), 0);*/
send(client, reply, strlen(reply)+1, 0);
}
}
return 0;
}
compile + execute on a console with sudo(to allow port 80) OR change the addr.sin_port to something bigger than '1024'
...ctrl+z to finish

Answer 2

In php you would do header("Content-Type: text/html"); to set a default change the default_mimetype directive in php.INI to the correct mime type.