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April 11, 2007
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Earthlink CGI script and Flash

  • April 11, 2007
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I've created a contact form in Flash and the script can't find the URL at Earthlink. I've talked to EL and they said use the EL CGI html code and incorporate in the Flash script. I tried a multitude of ways and get constant syntax errors. My code has no errors but can't find the URL. I've attached my code and Earthlink's sample code. Can someone show me where to put what?
Thanks for any and all help.

Earthlink's code:
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action=" http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/mailto"> 
<input type="hidden" name="RECIPIENT" value="user@domain.com"> 
<input type="hidden" name="THANKURL" value=" http://www.domain.com/thankyou.html"> 
<p> 
<b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30"><br> 
<b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p> 
<b>Comments:</b><br> 
<textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p> 
<input type="submit" value="Send"> 
<input type="reset" value="Clear"> 
</form> 
<p>


My Flash Code:
stop();

send_btn.onRelease = function() {
var my_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

my_lv.firstName = firstName_txt.text;
my_lv.lastName = lastName_txt.text;
my_lv.email = email_txt.text;
my_lv.phone = phone_txt.text;

if (firstName_txt.text != "" && lastName_txt.text != "" && email_txt.text != "" && comments_txt.text != "")
{
my_lv.send(" http://www.domain.us/cgi-bin/mailto:me@domain.us","_blank","POST");
gotoAndStop("success");
}
else
{
gotoAndStop("error");
}
}
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    kglad
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    April 16, 2007
    is it formmail.pl?
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    Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    I've found a quality perl script (I think) but have no idea what part(s) or all I really need. Can I paste it here or in the code window for you to look at and maybe you can tell me which parts or all that I need to upload. Just let me know if you really want to continue on this neverending project or not and, if you do, which do you want me to do, paste or attach. It seems like a pretty long code with explanations.
    kglad
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    April 16, 2007
    the flash coding is not the problem. there's some security check on el's part that's not accepting a call to their mailto script from a swf.

    if you use a php or perl mail script you won't have the security problem and that seems the best route to go. i can help with both but i've been using php more lately so i can help more with php.
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    Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    I still get the same message. Are we fighting a loosing battle here? What if I upload a CGI form script to my CGI folder and use that to process the form? There are many on the internet. Or, maybe using a totally different flash script? You've spent so much time helping me and, without any help from EL, you/we seem to be swimming upstream and there's a Bear with his mouth open just waiting to chomp!
    kglad
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    April 16, 2007
    that's probaby not helpful because there's nothing in there.

    the problem is not a flash coding problem unless that redirect to their mail program is on another domain (which seems highly unlikely). you should call customer support and ask them what kind of security check is occuring that won't let you access their mail form from a website on their domain.
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    Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    I've been on the phone with EL for an hour and they don't support personal scripts and said that if I follow these 3 steps it should work. I took the swf and it's html page out of the DVL folder and put it in my root folder thinking that might help, but still get the same "Must be hosted at EL" message. I'll attatch the code again

    Here are their steps again:
    Once you've created your form, you will need to set the METHOD of the form to POST and the ACTION of the form to http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/mailto where domain.com is the name of your domain. The final code will look like the following.
    <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION=" http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/mailto">

    where domain.com is your domain name.

    You will also need to add the two hidden fields below in between the begin form tag and the end form tag:
    <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="RECIPIENT" VALUE="user@domain.com">

    <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="THANKURL" VALUE="URL_for_a_thankyou_page">

    where user@domain.com is the email address to which you want the data from the form sent and URL_for_a_thankyou_page is the URL of a page (e.g., http://www.acme.com/thankyou.html) that you will need to create telling the user that the data from the form has been sent.
    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    April 16, 2007
    i doubt this will work but try adding a ThankYou.html page even though you don't want to use one. (you can work-around using a redirect later to get back to your swf, if needed) and change the THANKURL to an absolute path:

    lv.THANKURL=" http://www.davidbrewer.com/ThankYou.html";
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    Anonymous
    April 15, 2007
    The CGI folder
    kglad
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    April 15, 2007
    on what file (or directory) did you set permissions?
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    Anonymous
    April 15, 2007
    rwx r-x r-x
    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    April 15, 2007
    what did you set permissions on?
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    Anonymous
    April 14, 2007
    I've set the permissions right. There was no Info related to Flash. I've copied what I think might be pertinent:

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