On Nov 29, 2003, at 3:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Due to spiders harvesting email addresses from our web sites, which results in a flood of spam, we are planning to remove them all and use a form-post-to-cgi model. I would like to use transcript. If anyone has invented this wheel already, email me off list.
You are doing it the hard way. There any lots of methods for obfuscating email addresses on web sites to hide from spam harvesters. There is no reason to force people to use form-mailers. I dislike those and I think a lot of other people do too. See
<http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html> <http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml>
The following actually works, the mail is sent, but it is followed up immediately with an error msg from the server... any ideas? for some strange reason the error is not logged into the webmaster/error log... i suspect that's because in fact it works, ie the email *is* sent.... does apache expect us to handle stdout? But, there is none...?
You didn't show us the entire script? What is the exact error message from the web server?
Most of the time 500 server error problems are because the script does not return a valid http header, or returns other content before the http header.
Immediately after startup, before doing any other work:
put "Content-type: text/html" & crlf & crlf put "doing it...<br>"
Now you have sent a valid http header, and are in much better shape for discovering what the error message is.
You *always* have to send a valid http header of some kind back to the browser, when writing a CGI.
#!/mc ## disclaimer: this is just a start, we obviously need ## a lot of error checking for user input ## and feed back to the user by http... which will all ## be added later.
on startup if $REQUEST_METHOD is "POST" then read from stdin until empty ## put the form data into an array, put urlDecode (it) into tDataIn split tDataIn by "
Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | <http://mindlube.com>
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