[kdewebdev-webdeveloper] Form Problem

[Graeme Nichols]

Hamster wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +1100
>Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> wrote:
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>>Hi H., Thanks for the info and the offer of help but my ISP gives me
>>10M  of web space and no sefver side scripting facilities at all. I
>>checked  it out with them before I wrote the form. My HTML text book,
>>'Web  Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days by Laura Lemay' indicates that
>>the  mailto: works OK, but, unless I have coded something wrong, it
>>doesn't  work OK.
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>The problem is that the vast majority of those HTML books are written by
>people who are good at making pretty pages as opposed to people who
>actually have a clue about the technologies they're working with.
>
>Most of these authors aren't aware that OSs apart from MS exist, and
>think the only two browsers in use are IE and Netscape.
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>

Unfortunately , that is true.

>When a book makes a claim that something works, but in practise it
>doesn't, the best thing to do is to view the actual W3C specification
>for HTML. 
>
>The forms page is found at
>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-action
>
>For you, the most interesting sentence on that page is where the form
>'action' is defined. It states: 
>
><quote> User agent behavior for a value other than an HTTP URI is
>undefined. </quote>
>
>In a nutshell, anything other than action="http://" is not defined by
>the specification and so will be different in each different webbrowser.
>Which is why the mailto: only works for specific combinations of
>webbrowser and mailclient.
>
>I see someone else has replied suggesting you make use of websites
>offering form processing. Seems to me the best way to go.
>
>If you really run into problems, I can set up a page on my website that
>emails you the results of the form submit. Provided of course you don't
>expect thousands of responses :)
>
>H.
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Hello H., Thanks for that info and your kind offer. Before I impose on you I will check out the freebies.

One other thing, If I were to put a script in a subdir of my web space and then point to that script from my form would it perhaps work? I guess it rather depends on whether I can set execute permission on the script dir and the answer to that is probably 'No'. My ISP is not a unix user.

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Kind regards,

Graeme.
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