Re: Replay Form (Guestbook) problem

by "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>

Date:	Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:38:08 -0500
To:	<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>, "Elias Thienpont" <elias(at)assumptionabbey.com>
References:	ctctel
	todo: View Thread, Original

It did not work for me using Netscape 4.62 and got:
"Bad username. You are only allowed to edit your own pages. "

I suspect the Perl file listed in the browser location block:
http://www.assumptionabbey.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl
is causing the problem.


> We have been running a guest book for some time on our website (at
> http://www.assumptionabbey.com/guestbook.html )
> and I have found that it only works with MSIE and that users on NN get an
> error message about permissions not being set correctly.  Our ISP assures
> us that the permissions are correct, and expect that they are since MSIE
> has no problems with it.
>
> I suspect our coding (although this was a downloaded guestbook). Can
> someone take a look at the source code and see if there is anything that
> can be fixed to make this work correctly.
>
> Thanks,
> Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
>

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