On Nov 29, 2003, at 8:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... and there are others on the team here that think forms are a bad way to make people contact you... I myself don't see why exactly, since you can make the form look nearly identical to an email client new message window... and only if you start using the web page for other things, asking for more then the needful info just to let them email you... etc. how is it that different than having the browser kick up your email client?
That's just it: you have no idea what my email client looks like. :-)
Often what I notice is:
1) composition textarea is way too small
2) subject line is absent, or is a pulldown menu with only a couple of choices
3) form action is coded with stupid javascript that only works on IE on Windows or something.
and "You *always* have to send a valid http header of some kind back to the browser, when writing a CGI."
is the second mango. I didn't know that... I thought if the cgi invoked a process on the server, that was the end of it.
Glad to help.
BTW for a CGI that only exists to do something like send mail, a good trick to use is the Location: header to redirect the browser to somewhere else on the site, like a thankyou page.
put "Location: thanks.html" & crlf & crlf
I think technically that example is not exactly correct, but has always worked for me.
Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | <http://mindlube.com>
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