CGI - Hidden Fields (NS4.7/IE5)

[thanos]

Make shure you are using POST and not GET. EI handle form method GET
badly!!!!

Tamer Fahmy wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have got a strange problem with my CGI-script. If I call my
> page from Netscape through Apache I get all hidden Fields and
> values. But if I instead call it from Internet Explorer 5 the
> hidden fields don't show up in my FieldStorage.
>
> I noticed in the apache Log Files that IE5 claims itself to be
> HTTP/1.1 comformant and Netscape says HTTP/1.0. Could this be
> the reason or am I missing something?
>
> A hidden line in my CGI-script looks like this:
> <input type="hidden" name="EXPIRED">
> and I use method="post" in my form tag.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
>   Tamer.
>
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