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RE: [cobalt-users] CGI Madness
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.
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:47:41, Kevin McCann <techadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
I always upload (FTP) as "automatic", so the method wasn't
(and isn't generally) an issue.
As I posted, earlier, the problem seemed to be that I had TWO
Email addresses for the newest upload in the HTML file and for some
reason, this made that line too long which caused the bug.
(CGI-wrapper error)
The script that was working has two Email addresses, also.
However, both are shorter. Go figure!
Patrick Beart
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