Re: Puzzle....

Jeff,

The reason a blank email is opened when submitting the form in IE and AOL is
because the mailto: command is not fully supported by those browsers. They
will only open a blank email with the subject filled in. NN & IE5 and above
do it correctly. You may want to find a service to allow you to use a CGI
script instead as there is no way to "fix" this.

Frani

- - -----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of ErthWlkr(at)aol.com
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:29 AM
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Puzzle....


Good morning friends:

At the request of a friend looking for help with a form, I am forwarding
this
message from her:

> I have a web page that has a mailto: submit button (CGI isn't usable) but
if
>  I do it in AOL it opens a mail window and doesn't submit the form.
>  Any ideas?
>  The page is:
>  http://www.uscj.org/njersey/paramus/donation.html
>  Thanks for any help.

Intersting points - I had no problem submitting the form on my Mac - but
when
I tried it on my PC, AOL opened a mail window as she described, and both IE
and Netscape came up with an error message saying they couldn't find the
server.

I played with this for a couple of hours but can't figure out why this is
happening.  Could the members of this list please take a try at this mystery
- - - it would be greatly appreciated by all...  :-)

- - - Jeff K.

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