On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:20:01 -0500 , Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
>On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 01:27:47 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
>> How did Arachne users and other DOS users get by the https to register for
>> Freewwweb? Problem is not so much the first https, which can be edited to http
>> using DOS Lynx386 or any other up-to-date Lynx, but the https on the form
>> itself.
>
>> <form method=get action="https://reg.freewwweb.com/cgi-bin/signup.cgi">
>
> It's no problem in Arachne. Just delete the "s" from https.
>You may do it in the URL line itself after getting the "unknown protocol
>in URL" message. Or you may press F4 to edit the page itself and the F2
>to save the edited page. Now when you submit the information, http will
>be used for the URL instead of https. (no error message)
>
Hi Glenn,
I found it necessary to edit each page with F4 and F2 before
filling in any info. Otherwise, the HTTPS would re-appear and the sub-
mission would fail. I am not HTML literate but I noticed that the way
process worked was that each page submission added data to the URL
until the final submission. If I wasn't careful to edit the page
before filling in data, I would get to the final submit page and some
of the data would be missing from the URL and the signup wouldn't
work. I also experienced some difficulty getting the pop3 number list
to fully load, maybe because of it's size? I had to edit the pop3 list
so that my number was at the beginning of the list so I could click
on it and get it to register. Also, after I received confirmation
that the submission was successful the process aborted to an error
page and no matter what I did I could not proceed further. It seemed
that Freewwweb was sending something that by-passed the ability to
be edited and caused an abort-to-error.
Eric
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