Limitations of posting a form

Thu May 4 12:26:43 PDT 1995


> Actually thats what I did to cause it to crash. Here's the form I wrote:
>
> 	<HTML>
> 	<HEAD><!-- OWNER_NAME="Chris Gregors" --></HEAD>
> 	<BODY>
> 	Unfortunately, this won't work as expected. I've left it
> 	in so that you can at least view the real bootptab
> 	<br>
> 	<form action="/cgi-bin/test-cgi" method=POST>
> 	<br>
> 	<textarea name="stuff" rows=30 cols=90>
> 	<!--#exec cmd="cat /etc/hosts"-->
> 	</textarea>
>
	While I'm not an expert, my experience has been that method="post"  
should be quoted. At one time we were using a perl based www server and  
"post" had to be capitalized as well... I think you are risking the <form>  
tag  reverting to the default GET method by not quoting it.
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Jeff Hallgren
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