RE: [cobalt-users] CGI Madness

["Kevin McCann" <techadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, August 05, 2000 Patrick Béart wrote

>	I was reading the recent ("CGIIII...") posts and feeling
>quite smug, when suddenly I received a message from one of my clients
>informing me that his Contact page wasn't working. I use the same
>"mailto.cgi" program for all such minor forms processing, so I know
>the upload and permissions process well. Any cogent suggestions or
>assistance would be appreciated.
>	The weird thing about this is that I have the EXACT same CGI
>script running on another site without any problems. I even copied
>the working script AND directory over to this (site15) client's site,
>in case some weird defect was present in either the directory or the
>files contained.

Don't know if this is your problem or the problem that the original
CGIIIII.... poster is having but in the past I have, quite by accident of
course, FTP'd CGI files as binaries vs. ASCII. As you can guess this results
in a file that looks just fine but doesn't work until you make a change to
it and save the file again on the server.

So if EVERYTHING looks good permission wise check your FTP software and make
sure you're not walking in my footsteps because I tend to fall down a lot
<grins>

Kevin