Hi Dave, My apologize for not getting back to the list sooner. I have figured out exactly what my problem was. I didn't add the following into my HTML code...
$nameofscript = "perlscript.pl"; <form method="post" action="$nameofscript"> Netscape didn't automatically use the script it was executing. Ohh well... at least my script is *finally* cross platform :). Thx, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Dave Benware [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 22 February 2002 4:22 PM To: Beginners perl Subject: Re: Netscape or Perl error? Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am just testing my Perl CGI script on Netscape browser at the moment > and I am getting a weird error occur. I can execute my script fine but > when I go to use a link in the script such as... > > http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/script?words=test&action=check_data > > In the URL bar of Netscape I get the following... > > http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/?words=test&action=check_data > > and of coarse gives me a 403 error: Permission denied error. > > I am just wondering why it seems to chop off the name of the script? If > I enter the following in manually... > > http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/script?words=test&action=check_data > > and replace test with what ever I like the script will return exactly as > I wanted it too? > > Has any one seen this before? > > Thx, > > Dan I'm probably way off here, but are you ending the name of your script with .cgi? Bompa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
