[CentOS] html/form newbie: trying to upload a little data to a server

Travis Fraser travis at snowpatch.net
Wed Nov 21 22:58:30 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 17:09 -0500, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've been trying for several hours to upload a few bits of data (not a 
> file) from an html form to a server, and none of my variants have worked 
> thus far.   I've done some web searching, too.
> 
> Anyway, here's the form:
> 
> <form method="POST" action="mmsrequest">
>  <pre>
>  UserID: <input type="text" NAME="userid">
>  Date  : <input type="text" NAME="date" value="mm/dd/yy">
>  Time  : <input type="text" NAME="time" value="hh:mm:ss">
>  <input type="submit"> <input type="reset">
                                      ^^^^^
How about changing type to "submit"?

>  </pre>
> </form>
> 
> I've tried mmsrequest as a script and as an executable.  Full path, 
> etc.  In and out of cgi-bin.
> 
> Variants tried:
>   method="GET"
> 
>   I end up with a copy of the script (well, I told the browser not to 
> bother trying to display the executable), instead of having the script run.
> 
>  method="POST"
>  
>  I either end up with a "Not Found" or "Method Not Allowed".  I've 
> always insured that permissions were rwxrwxrwx, just to avoid any 
> permissions problem, expecting to tighten that up after I got the basic 
> thing working.
> 
> I don't particularly care if the script or executable gets the 
> information from the command line separated by ampersands and whatnot, 
> environment variable (QUERY_STRING, or so I understand), or from 
> standard input.  However, I do care that the script/program gets run and 
> does get the information somehow, on the server side.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you,
> Chip Campbell
> 
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Travis Fraser <travis at snowpatch.net>




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