From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ecff3d3cce1ac826 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-08 06:57:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Help with ADA CGI Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:56:59 +0200 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3CB1A1AB.CF3534D6@nbi.dk> References: <3cb0c548_1@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1018274220 27990 130.225.212.55 (8 Apr 2002 13:57:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:57:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22218 Date: 2002-04-08T15:56:59+02:00 List-Id: George wrote: > 1)when I submit my ada generated form I cannot get the results to appear on a > new page What do you mean by a _new_ page? > 2)if there is an error in the form, I cannot get the program to wait for the > user to input the missing data, instead it just continues with the output- of > course it results in 'Your name is ' etc etc and not what I want. > If the form is submitted blank, it should put another form out and ask the user > to input the data again, but I can't get it to do this. Since HTTP is basically a stateless protocol, a CGI program can not wait for the user. Jacob -- "Navier-Stokes-ligningen er som Biblen, det er randbetingelserne der bestemmer det hele."