unix/cgi form to NT 2

[rry2k]

The company that hosts our website just switched us from Unix to NT. I had a form that worked properly before but doesn't now. Before it would string together all the input fields and send an email called postdata.att which I could unstring. Now when submit is selected it brings up an email dialog box with none of the information sent. I'm assuming that it was in a cgi format before but I'm not sure where I go with this now to capture the information.

 

[tsdragon]

Could you post at least part of the code?
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[rry2k]

Tracy,

My site is

http://www.salemsupport.com

and the link is client resources. The form and code are there.

Thanks..Russ

 

[tsdragon]

When I use IE5.5 I get a warning message saying that the form is being submitted by email and will reveal my email address. Then when I click on OK it pops up an MSIE error message saying "Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed".

If I click on a normal mailto: link my mail client (outlook) comes up correctly.

I've no idea what might be causing the problem, but this might give you a place to start.

Sorry I couldn't be more help. I've never used mailto on a form action. I'd rather write a perl cgi program to handle it. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[yahve]

Hi,

I have found errors on your page:

1. <Form Name=&quot;form1&quot; action=mailto:rregner@salemsupport.com&quot; enctype=&quot;text/plain&quot;> you forgot the first &quot; .
2. near the end of the page in the input submit tag, you should remove the action attribute since it is the form which is submitted and not the input tag. Also remove the method. This might solve your problem.
3. seems you forgot to specify a background color for the body as it appears gray on my screen (it should be white, no?)
4. You really should get ride of all the word tags, in my opinion.

Bye.

 

[rry2k]

yahve,

I fixed the problems that you suggested and still received this message: Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed&quot;.

Thanks for the help and if you have any other suggestions I would appreciate it.

Russ

 

[JackaRoe]

The problem occurs when you use more than a certain amount of characters (400?, 467?, or some similar number) in a &quot;mailto:&quot; statement. Most e-mail clients (including Outlook)are unable to hande that many characters from a &quot;mailto:&quot; tag. Don't ask me why, because I have no idea. I'm wrestling with the same problem right now.