CGI Problems With Xitami

[Dang Griffith]

On 8 Apr 2004 00:56:59 -0700, michael at foord.net (Fuzzyman) wrote:

>All of a sudden the 'POST' method has stopped working - when I specify
>'POST' as the method in forms... the CGI gets no data... and I really
>don't want to use 'GET' as it makes the password visible in the URL...
>
>I've looked in the CGI options of the Xitami config and I can't find
>anything amiss, or even especially relevant. The Xitami docs say
>'POST' should work fine (of course they don't mention python).
>
>Anyone any suggestions or experience.
>(Yes I've checked the form construction in the hTML templates - it's
>fine. The values don't even make it to Fieldstorage...)

Try capturing the generated HTML source and run it through TidyHTML.

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

It could be something in that page is causing the browser not to post
the data.

    --dang