> -----Original Message-----
> From: neill roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 8:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: stoopid newbie formmail question
> 
> 
> hi, i am very new to perl and cgi so please excuse this dull, stoopid 
> question...
> 
> 
> but i'm trying to write a formmail program and i'm getting 
> very frustrated 
> cos it works in Opera 5.12 and NS6.1 but for some reason in 
> IE6 it doesn't. 
> for some reason IE can't tell whether a field has been filled 
> in or not... 
> well here's the code... i'm _sure_ this is right  :)
> 
> 
> # check fields aren't empty
> 
> 
>     if ($FORM{'name'} eq "" || $FORM{'email'} eq "" ) {
>       &err("hey stoopid");
>     }
> 
> 
> when i try the form in internet explorer i _always_ get the 
> error message 
> (and yes i am filling both fields in).

Probably broken query-parsing code in the formmail script.
Use the CGI module to parse the form.

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