Hi Alain, Try this witch works for me perfectly from MC 2.32 to 2.5:
> set httpheaders to "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" & return > post fld 1 to url myURL Hope this help. Best, On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 05:19, Alain Farmer wrote: > Hello Scott and y'all, > > I have a persistant problem with the "post url" syntax > of MetaCard 2.5, as I did with 2.4 as well. The client > is a MetaCard 2.5 stack with the following handler in > a button : > > on mouseUp > put "http://www.giguere.uqam.ca/" into myHost > put myHost & "XA/MenusXApost.cgi" into myURL > if the openSockets is empty then > post field 1 to url myURL > if the result is not empty > then answer the result > else answer it > else > beep > end if > end mouseUp > > The CGI program on the server-side is a > HyperCard-based CGI which performs marvelously. It > returns the minimum set of HTTP headers required by > MetaCard. The proof of this is that the first click on > the above button indeed returns what it is supposed > to. Btw, I am using Webstar 2.1 on MacOS 8.6 on the > server-side. > > The problem arises after the first click of this > button. On the second and subsequent clicks of this > button, the handler beeps, e.g. the openSockets is not > empty which, IOW, means that the socket remains open > after the first click. In fact, it (the socket) > *never* closes, and this inhibits it from doing its > thing more than once. > > My diagnostic, therefore, is that there is a bug in > MC's post command whereby the socket that is opened is > never closed. Please fix this *bug* by making the > socket close automatically ASAP after the reply is > received by the MC client. Or give us the new syntax > we need to *close* the open sockets ourselves. > > If you disbelieve my account, then feel free to > download a copy of my client stack which exhibits this > problem : > > http://ufp.uqam.ca/MC/test_url_stuff.mc.zip > > Thank you for your time and earnest work, :) > > Alain Farmer > > NB: This is relatively URGENT for me. Please respond > as soon as you can [Scott]. It has nothing to do with > the interface; this is clearly an engine issue. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard -- Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores Serveurs d'applications & bases ACID SQL Penser et produire l'avantage compétitif _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard