On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 09:38  PM, Bill Lyles wrote:

> Huh?
>

i think you are calling an html file that gets the input and posts to this 
cgi script.
so drieux is confused when you say the whole script. it is the whole cgi, 
but there is an html file that does the post.


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> From: "drieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Validation Error
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>>
>> On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 08:13 , Bill Lyles wrote:
>>
>>> I have been running this directly from the form in my browser using the
>>> post
>>> method and yes this is the whole script
>>
>> I'm slow, so bare with me here. Let's call your code
>>
>> mycode.cgi
>>
>> and you are calling it in the browser with
>>
>> http://localhost/my/home/dir/mycode.cgi
>>
>> { that will send a 'get' to your cgi over the http protocol }
>>
>> and you will get that error case, since there is nothing
>> in the URI schema that passed diddly but if you try that
>> with say
>>
>> http://localhost/my/home/dir/mycode.cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&spot=dog
>>
>> then you would be okish.... it is still a GET.
>>
>> but what I failed to see in your code was any place where you were
>> offering the user a chance to make any of the types of selections
>> that would be needed to generate the above -
>>
>> cf. perldoc CGI
>>
>>
>>
>> ciao
>> drieux
>>
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