According to SoloCDM: > Gilles Detillieux stated the following: > > According to SoloCDM: > > > SoloCDM stated the following: > > >> Jim Cole stated the following: > > >>> SoloCDM's bits of Thu, 7 Mar 2002 translated to: > > >>>> In Apache 1.3.22, I received the following results when I entered > > >>>> in a search criteria: > > > > >>>> Netscape is unable to find the file or directory named > > >>>> /cgi-bin/htsearch. > > > > That's the sort of error Netscape gives when it's trying to open a > > file locally, as opposed to going through a web server. How exactly > > are you calling htsearch? If it's from a search form, what does the > > action attribute of the <form> tag look like? > > I have attached the file search.html for verification.
It looks like a standard 3.1.5 search.html file to me, just the way the Makefile would install it by default. > When I executed a search with search.html in lynx I received the > following error: > > Alert!: POST not supported for this URL - ignoring POST data! > > I'm making note of this for your benefit. It verifies your conclusion > and provides insight to what you are not able to see. Yes, I'm assuming in both cases you're reading the search form in your browser via a local file, rather than an http:// URL. If that's the case, the browser doesn't know that the action URL must be interpreted as an HTTP URL, because there's no http:// part to it, so it's interpreted relative to the base URL of the search.html file itself. If you want your browser to call the htsearch CGI properly via HTTP, you must either load in the search.html file via HTTP, or put a fully-qualified http:// URL in the action attribute of the <form> tag. This isn't a bug, it's just a misconfiguration and/or misuse of the form. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
