CGI.pm help with IE browser

BigJoe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I come to the monks like normal in need of some help. I have a internal page where I work and on the page it has 2 frames Top and Bottom. Top is an html doc that refreshes it self every x seconds. The bottom is a form that is used to write into the top.html file. On the bottom I made a button to pause the top from refreshing. What it does for right now is remove a part of the meta tag <M that causes the top to refresh. I used the CGI.pm to target the top frame. This works in Netscape but it doesn't work with IE.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;

$q = new CGI;

open(INFILE, "<top.html");
$filesize = -s INFILE;
read(INFILE, $wholepage, $filesize);
close(INFILE);

$wholepage =~s/<M//;

print $q->header(-target=>'Top');
print $q->p($wholepage);
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Does any one know how to do this same thing in IE?

Thanks
Big Joe

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Re: CGI.pm help with IE browser by wonko (Pilgrim) on Jun 14, 2000 at 11:26 UTC
What You are trying to use is a non-standard, Netscape specific externsion to the HTTP-protocol; IE can't (obviously) handle this adressing technique. What You shoud do is to set the target in the startform call `print $q->startform(-action=>"whatewer.cgi", -TARGET=>"Top");` [download] Another way to do it is with javascript: `<script language=javascript type="text/javascript"> function speciallink(new) { parent.frames["top"].document.location = new; } // --> </script>` [download] Call it with `onClick="speciallink('Whatever.cgi')"` [download] (The script can be used on anything that supports the onClick event) I hope this will help ; ) /Wonko	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CGI.pm help with IE browser by Michalis (Pilgrim) on Jun 14, 2000 at 12:56 UTC
It's not only IE that doesn't work with this, neither Opera does nor Mozilla. As wonko said, it's Netscape specific. But you could use exactly the same directive in start_html() if you call that later on.	[reply]