> Adrian: I have finished the voting cgi (except
> for properly handling non-ascii chars and without
> some features I'll add later) ...
Alain : Good progress.
> Adrian : ... however when using Quid Pro Quo and
> Netscape Communicator 4.51, a couple of the pages
> give "The document contains no data errors" in
> Netscape. They work fine in Internet Explorer. Has
> anyone experienced this before? What causes it?
Alain : Internet browsers are notoriously dissimilar. Some HTML
features that are supported by Netscape are not supported by Explorer,
and vice-versa.
> Anthony: Improper output from the CGI. Possible
> screwed up headers.
> Adrian : I'm not sure how this could happen, the CGI
> is written in HyperCard and all I/O is handled from
> the AppleEvents handler which calls functions to
> create the HTML and return it.
Alain : That's how I used to do it. It should work like a charm.
> Adrian : It works for all but two functions. These
> functions turn out to return under 1K of text though
> whereas the others are all over 1K. Could this be a
> problem?
Alain : I doubt that it has anything to do with SIZE.
> Adrian : How do I fix it?
Alain : Send me your stack, Adrian.
> Anthony: Give me a URL and I'll try and see what's
> wrong. You'll need to telnet into the server on port
> 80, send your own HTTP request, and then look at the
> output.
Alain : There are other ways of testing CGI programs.
> Adrian : I can't give you an URL that you can access
> as it is on an internal server only. I can send you
> the stack though.
Alain : OK, send me the stack. Your CGI will sooner or later be run
from here in any case.
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