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What happens when you fill in the action attribute with an absolute URI rather than leaving it blank?

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Re^4: why am i getting script error 500
by ketaki (Acolyte) on Jun 22, 2008 at 12:34 UTC
    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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        yes i replaced that cgi::vars statement with this one: 
        my $step =param(step);

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        but i removed 'use strict' becoz on viewing on the browser on net, it shows this error on the page : 
        Bareword "step" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /home/www/xx
+xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org/cgi-bin/local.cgi line 11.
Execution of /home/www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org/cgi-bin/local.cgi abor
+ted due to compilation errors.

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        Any clue?thanx
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