CGI forms timing out or not going anywhere

Whose fault is it?

[molecularr]

Hello,

This may not turn out to be a Perl-related problem, but it's at least related, so I thought I'd post it here. I've got a blog site running Blosxom as the main blog thing, with the Pollxn plugin for comments. I've had complaints from users that when they try to submit comments, nothing happens. No error messages, just nothing.

I haven't been able to recreate this error on my own, so I can't be sure of any more specifics. It's a standard form and Pollxn doesn't seem to do anything unusual.

Has anyone else run into this kind of problem with forms? I thought I heard once that it had to do with certain security setting in IE. Any ideas?

Thanks
M

[Chico_Loco]

Your 1st step is to look at your server log files and see if you can find calls to the script which give a code other than an HTTP 200 response code.

[jatar_k]

Do you know if all the users are using IE? As Chico_Loco mentioned check your logs for errors or even for the succesful posts and see if that tells you anything. There are also some threads around somewhere (a couple in PHP) that talk about IE dropping the post. I don't think anyone found a specific answer though.