Using a feedback form on a website.

How to get rid of warning pop ups

[gstick]

I have set up a personal site and the beginning of a business site. They are working fine.

My contact-me page on each has a email response form which works. The only problem is that when you attempt to submit a message Internet Explorer gives you a warning popup about revealing your email address and that message is not encrypted. If you click okay on this one Outlook Express gives you another pop up warning about revealing your email address.

In there anyway I can get rid of this warning problem?

[stapel]

I've never heard of a form-handler script generating this sort of error. Are you using an old style CGI script, rather than something more up-to-date such as a recent-issue PHP script?

Eliz.

[gstick]

For STAPEL--I am in the process of exploring php.

[gstick]

I have successfully changed my response form from cgi to php. As I learn about php it seems that an advantage is that it is a server side script, that is the php code is processed by the server.

However, when I go to the website from my computer I still get the pop up warnings which say

(1) the other party will know your email address
and that the info will not be encrypted for privacy
if I okay this
(2) I get another pop up from Outlook Express that tells me that a program is trying to send a message. If I clear this the email message goes thru.

When I respond to other sites I do not run into these pop ups. How do I get rid of them?

Thanks for any help!

[stapel]

gstick said:

I get another pop up from Outlook Express

Why on earth is Outlook Express getting involved? You're supposed to have a web page with a form, and a script that handles the form content. There isn't supposed to be an actual mail-message being generated in your e-mail utility.

That is, you're supposed to have a web page, HTML, with a form with various fields, such as "name", "address", and "message". Clicking the "send" or "submit" button is supposed to trigger a form-handler script on your server. This script takes the contents of those form fields, and turns them into an e-mail message. The server then sends you the e-mail and sends to user to the "thank you" page.

There is no Outlook Express or other e-mail utility involved.

So what are you doing instead? For instance, are you using a well-known form-handler script? Or a "mailto:" link?

Eliz.

[mack]

A mailto form will always provide an error popup when the user attempts to send the information. This is because you are using the users email application to send the data. This will put-off some users.

The best cource of acion will be to use a mail form that uses the servers email server to do the actual sending of the message. This way the users system mail is not used, and there is no reason to prompt them.

Mack.

[edit for typo]

[edited by: mack at 6:12 pm (utc) on Mar. 17, 2006]

[gstick]

for Stapel

I am the user testing my own system. Therefore I am completing the form with my home computer.

I assume that other users using their own computers will get similar messages.

for Mack

Then I must contact the host to see what is needed for their server to send the email message for the user?

My thanks to both of you.

[mack]

On the server side you can install a simple script within your web space that will handle the sending of the message to your email address. You should be able to find a good free script to handle sending the message from your form to your email address.

Try looking on hotscripts.com

Mack.

[gstick]

for Mack
I discovered that my host has a script, PHP, that provides the key. I simply insert the file address in my Contact page code. I had already reworked my code using PHP.

This is all done and the warnings problems are solved.

This is the best forum of any type I have ever seen. Congratulations and thanks.