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Author WinXP browser and Linux/Apache/Perl Server
rjvennes@hotmail.com

2005-09-23, 6:55 pm

I've been running Linux/Apache/Perl for quite a while now. Been
working great and I love the easy programming of the language. I have
a WinXP client who is trying to access my scripts, but is getting page
not found.

Let me detail what's going on...

1. WinXP starts IE or any other browser.
2. Signs onto my website and enters parameters into a PHP generated
form.
3. Form is supposed to be submitted to a Perl CGI, but apache never
see's it.... nothing in the logs.

Today, my customer just informed me that another of his WinXP machines
(which used to work perfectly on my site) now cannot process the forms.
What's going on here???

I've instructed them to turn off the WinXP firewalls, tried Firefox
instead of IE, but nothing seems to work. It's as if WinXP doesn't
want to post a form to my Search.cgi program.

We've got hundreds of clients using the exact same cgi's so I don't
think it's anything with my server. But I thought I'd ask here as well
as an XP group.

Suggestions greatly appreciated...

Thanks in Advance,
Ron

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