Thursday 2 June 2011

Fiddly Forms

A long time ago I experimented with forms and after some messing about managed to get one working on my website - just to prove I could.

I now actually need a form to provide feedback from visitors to the U3A Open day in August. I therefore put an experimental form on my own website but it couldn't find the cgi file to which data was to be sent.

Eventually I solved the problem by shortening the path, but that is odd.

I now have two forms on web pages in the same directory, each sending data to a file in my_website/cgi-bin, yet one form successfully uses the full path, while the other can only locate its cgi file if given the shortened path: /cgi-bin/filename.

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