Forms not using cgi?

[Gleason Sackman]

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<Gleason>

At 01:41 PM 8/25/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Stephanie Kraus wrote:
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>> I have recently been playing around with creating a a reference question
>> form to put on our web page.  Since I don't know anything about perl I
>> have been struggling with the CGI "stuff".  In the help section of my
>> HotDog Pro I came across these sentences:
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>> "Forms can also be used to send mail to someone.   This can be useful if
>> you don't know anything about CGI programming: the form can mail the
>> information directly to your account. Information sent this way is not
>> formatted, but can still be understoood"
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>> Has anyone tried this?  Does this mean in the form tag I would use
>> ACTION="mailto:wkslibry at crisny.org" instead of sending it to a URL
>> containing a script?
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>> Any experiences using the mailto tag for forms or help you can give
>> would be greatly appreciated!
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>Stephanie:
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>Although we have a few forms on our site (actually, on the GIS
>Clearinghouse, which is hosted by the NYS Library) that are set up this
>way, e.g.
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>	http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gis/forms/persform.htm
>	http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gis/forms/edform.htm
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>it's a temporary fix; we're planning to change to a cgi script as soon as
>we can.
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>The information comes in via e-mail, but I can't read it from e-mail;
>I have to save it and then open it up in a word processing program, where
>I run a macro I created to parse the information so that's it's readable
>(in its raw form, the text comes in in one continuous string, with two-
>or three-digit codes replacing any punctuation). So there's a couple extra
>steps here, although, for the low volume we're receiving so far, it isn't
>really a problem.
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>What *is* a problem is that we've found that some people can't use these
>forms, most often because their browsers aren't set up to send e-mail or
>because they're using Internet Explorer. (Thank you, Thomas Dowling, for
>explaining exactly why IE users were having trouble with our forms.)
>Apparently a cgi script would work in both these situations. We're
>looking at a script that a colleague just recommended, and hope to have it
>up by the end of the month.
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>Diane Madrigal
>New York State Library
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