On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:51 -0400, Ingo Weiss wrote: > > That suggests you are trying to access /cgi-bin/ instead of > > /cgi-bin/someScript.cgi. Have you checked the HTML output of the > > previous script? Is the HTML valid? > > I checked it and it validates as XHTML 1.1 transitional
That is very unlikely. There is no such language as XHTML 1.1 transitional. > > Do you see this issue if you > > explicitly visit the URI of the second script? > > No. Not if I put the url in quotes, like: > lynx "http://www......."; That, probably, just stops your shell snipping off part of the URI before passing it to the lynx binary. Certain characters (such as &) have special meaning in the shell. > This is what my URLs look like: > > <a > href="?inst=neu&course=art635&year=2004&term=fall& > section=news"> > > I am using "?" to indicate the same script that generated the page - > could that be a problem? Yes. Lynx believes it means "./?etc" rather then "myScript.cgi?etc". > if yes how is this done correctly? Give the URI to the script, don't try to get the browser to fill it in for you. > Could the encoding of the url be a problem ("&" for "&")? No. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
