Brent (or anybody)
    Since you mention Matt Wright's formmail, I'll ask for help.  I've been trying to activate the "required" feature there but have no luck.  Could someone kindly take a look and see what I'm missing?  I'm only looking to require two fields "send" and "email".  The "test" page is at:
   http://www.wizvax.net/btradeco/new_join.htm

Brent Eades wrote:

On 26 Jan 99, Gerry Ott wrote:

> I have installed an Information Request Form on my clients site.  He wants
> to verify that certain fields of data are filled out and otherwise reject
> the submittal with a "missing info" comment if they aren't filled out.  In
> all the forms tutorials I have bookmarked, the issue of verification is
> not addressed.  Is this an html exercise or a server side cgi function?
> In either case, can anyone point me to a site where forms verification is
> covered?

It's a fairly straightforward scripting issue, can be handled in
Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion and no doubt other languages/extensions.

If you use the Matt Wright's venerable formmail.pl to process your
information requests, some basic validation comes built-in (at least
in the version I use, 1.6) -- here's the salient bit:
 

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