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sorry for not being clear. actually the page local.cgi shows up the page initially. cgi is working since a hello world program runs fine when viewed on the web. The script 500 error shows up when i hit the go button( submit button in a form on the local.cgi page) the form goes to the local.cgi page itself on submition, since i have specified form action as "". why is this error coming?
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Re^3: why am i getting script error 500
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 22, 2008 at 09:50 UTC
    What happens when you fill in the action attribute with an absolute URI rather than leaving it blank?

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      hey... thanx ... i replaced the blank in action to the url and it works now.... but 1 strange thing is happening now after this change... it is not displaying the contents of frame.txt any more. why so? thanx, ketaki
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        Did you also take the earlier advice, re use strict and (though a wise general practice, not necessarily essential here) re param()?

        You might also wish to close the <html> tag, as required by the spec.

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