<form Tag in Perl CGI

[Julia De Silva]

Hi there

I'm creating an HTML page in Perl with the following Form tag

<form action='http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/script.cgi' method='post'>

When the form is posted the browser tries to look for

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/http://www...bin/script.cgi

Am I missing something. I've done this sort of scripting for ages and this
hasn't happened before. Am I missing something obvious.

TIA

J

[Julia De Silva]

Always the way when you post to the Newsgroup, you find the answer in 10
minutes yourself !!

One too many </form> tags at the end of the HTML !!

J

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Julia De Silva wrote:

Always the way when you post to the Newsgroup, you find the answer
in 10 minutes yourself !!
I can happen even in the case of genuine problems, certainly.
One too many </form> tags at the end of the HTML !!

But that's frankly inexcusable. One should not resort to troubling
thousands of usenauts, when the problem could be resolved by an HTML
validator, or one of the other obvious routine "tools of the trade".

Make a resolution to install Chris Pedrick's "web developer's toolbar"
into Mozilla and/or Firefox, and get into the habit of using it.
Specifically for this context: its links to HTML validator and CSS
checker. I predict that you won't regret it.

[Fred Banaszak]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:43:42 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
<fl*****@ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

Make a resolution to install Chris Pedrick's "web developer's toolbar"
into Mozilla and/or Firefox, and get into the habit of using it.
Specifically for this context: its links to HTML validator and CSS
checker. I predict that you won't regret it.

Just to add to this: I find that the HTML Validator (based on Tidy)
extension enhances the Web Developer Toolbar in that it gives instant
HTML validation.

[Spartanicus]

Fred Banaszak <fr**********@earthlink.invalid> wrote:

Just to add to this: I find that the HTML Validator (based on Tidy)
extension enhances the Web Developer Toolbar in that it gives instant
HTML validation.

Tidy is a linter, not a validator.

--
Spartanicus

[Fred Banaszak]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:07:27 GMT, Spartanicus
<in*****@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Fred Banaszak <fr**********@earthlink.invalid> wrote:

Just to add to this: I find that the HTML Validator (based on Tidy)
extension enhances the Web Developer Toolbar in that it gives instant
HTML validation.

Tidy is a linter, not a validator.

Yes, quite. Which, to my mind, does not negate its usefulness. And
which is also why I said in addition to rather than in place of.

[Spartanicus]

Fred Banaszak <fr**********@earthlink.invalid> wrote:

Tidy is a linter, not a validator.

Yes, quite. Which, to my mind, does not negate its usefulness.

Tidy may have some useful purpose such as cleaning up MS Word "HTML".

It also removes code indenting and it inserts blank lines making the
code hard to read. It insists on removing empty elements used for
styling with no option to prevent that from happening.

Makes it considerably worse than useless imo, YMMV.

--
Spartanicus

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Mon, Apr 11, Fred Banaszak inscribed on the eternal scroll:

Just to add to this: I find that the HTML Validator (based on Tidy)
extension enhances the Web Developer Toolbar in that it gives instant
HTML validation.

Would you care to reword that? The HTML validator itself gives "HTML
validation", and does (modulo a few marginal notes) a pretty good job
of it. "Tidy" is a useful linter, in its way, but it doesn't have any
direct relevance to "validation" - in the technical sense in which
SGML or XML use that term.

--
Procrastination gives you something to look forward
to putting off tomorrow. -spotted on ahbou

[Fred Banaszak]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:02:55 GMT, Spartanicus
<in*****@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Makes it considerably worse than useless imo, YMMV.

Obviously it does.

[Fred Banaszak]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:46:32 +0200, "Alan J. Flavell"
<fl*****@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

Would you care to reword that?

Frankly, no. It's just not worth the effort.