Re: [MacPerl] Form Script and uploading cgi scripts on the web site

Bhavul,

In reply to:

>I have the following queries. I am new to mac perl scripting.

1) You are posting in the wrong place.
    > macperl-help is not a mailing list.  It is an email address for 
technical help with the mailing lists and is never right for a 
question about MacPerl.
    > Because CGI programming is such a popular topic, there is a 
special list for questions about CGI's: [email protected].  All 
followups should go there.

>I have a submit button on my form. I want that when the user presses the
>submit button on the form. The user should arrive a new page on the browser
>which should say just one line of text.
>How do I attach the cgi script to the submit button.

The CGI script is attached to the whole form, not the submit button.

>I am using claris homepage to develop my pages.

I know nothing about Claris Homepage, but I can practically guarantee 
that when you create a new form, one of the things you specify is the 
URL of the CGI to which it is attached.

>Another question is what do I need to do so
>that my resulting test should come on an new html page.

(By new page I am assuming you mean a new window in your browser such 
that the form remains in the old window.  It you really mean you just 
want your browser to go to a new page, then the answer is "nothing"; 
that's the normal behavior.)

It is an additional parameter in the form HTML tag, e.g.:

<form action="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi" method="post" 
target="_blank">

The target="_blank" parameter causes your browser to open a new window.

Again, I don't know how Claris Homepage handles this, but you can 
hand edit the HTML to add this if necessary.

>How to upload the cgi script/
>
>My server has a cgi-bin directory. I created a sample html file which had a
>link to a sample perl script. I uploaded my sample page in the main
>directory and the perl script in the cgi-bin directory. When I clicked on to
>the link to execute the perl script. It showed me a page saying that access
>forbidden. What do I need to do

Is the server a Mac?  Unix?  Something else?  Once you answer that, I 
will continue.

-David-

David Steffen, Ph.D.
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