script ok in IE & Opera - error in netscape

[Edward Glowacki]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:
> I'm trying to build a database using mysql, apache, and php4.  The
> following code (which is nearly verbatim from a book on the subject from
> which I'm trying to learn) works with Internet Explorer and Opera (both
> on a win9x machine) but not from Netscape (windows or linux) or the
> Konqueror browser/file manager that comes with kde.  Instead of working
> it gives a "requested URL not on this server" 404 error.  The
> interesting thing is that the book author used Netscape in all his
> examples.
> 
> The offending code:
> 
> <form action="<?php echo $php_self ?>" method="post">
>   <input type="hidden" name="action" value="insert">
>   Serial Number:&nbsp;
>   <input type="text" name="query_sn" size=31 maxlength=30>
>   <input type="submit" value="Query">
> </form>
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.

Does the error message appear when you load the page with the form
or after you submit?  Maybe you could include the HTML generated
by this script where you are having the error?  Have you verified
that you entered the URL correctly?  Um... more ideas, more ideas...
um... have you tried rewriting everything in Python? ;)

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