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yeti wrote:

> However, lately I tried to add to this HTML-page a (static)
> user-selectable URL, as a means to redirect to another
> location (e.g. www.borland.com);  when used from the
> web-browser the redirection is incorrect; it seems
> to try to access an executable in the CGI-server-
> -directory instead.
> 
> I did not manage to find the correct tag to use
> for this case. I tried some variations of "href='.

Well you omitted the variations in the reference.

Apparently you have something like:

	href="www.borland.com"

But you have to use:

	href="http://www.borland.com"

Hans.

yeti wrote:

>>     href="http://www.borland.com"

> I am glad to hear that the tag used per se
> was correct.

There was no mentioning of a tag.

A complete link using the anchor tag would have looked like:

	<a href="http://www.borland.com">Borland</a>

> I actually  did  use this second form, along
> with a variant with added url$, but both didn't
> work (when the page was generated dynamically).

It should not matter if it is a static page or a dinamic one.
The above link should do it. Just try this specific one.

> I will have to investigate further ...

There is something strange going on then.

What does it look with Show source in your browser?

You could adjust your computers clock to. For me it
is as if you posted tomorrow.

Hans.

yeti wrote:

> I have checked the clock, but it is (about) the correct
> local time and date, and the timezone is correct.

 From the source of your post:
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:51:23 -0500

If you are in NL then your timezone is wrong and it should
read +0100.

 From my post:
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:09:01 +0100

Hans.

Hans Galema wrote:

> Well you omitted the variations in the reference.
> 
> Apparently you have something like:
> 
>     href="www.borland.com"
> 
> But you have to use:
> 
>     href="http://www.borland.com"
> 
> Hans.

Thank you, mr. Galema,

I am glad to hear that the tag used per se
was correct.

I actually  did  use this second form, along
with a variant with added url$, but both didn't
work (when the page was generated dynamically).

I will have to investigate further ...

Hans Galema wrote:
> 
> There was no mentioning of a tag.
> 
> A complete link using the anchor tag would have looked like:
> 
>     <a href="http://www.borland.com">Borland</a>
> 

Yes, I had used a similar complete form for the original.
I had my doubts, though, about "href", but could not find
an alternative in the sparse CGI-documentation around.
No doubts, anymore ..


> 
> It should not matter if it is a static page or a dinamic one.
> The above link should do it. Just try this specific one.
> 
> 
> 
> There is something strange going on then.
> 
> What does it look with Show source in your browser?
> 

I will try this on my second computer (where I can test
CGI locally). I also will redirect the output to a file,
in order to look at the actual bytes; perhaps the "/",
a special character in C/C++, get lost, somehow,
in the output-proces (as the reference is part of the
static text-part of the page).


> You could adjust your computers clock to. For me it
> is as if you posted tomorrow.
> 
> Hans.

I have checked the clock, but it is (about) the correct
local time and date, and the timezone is correct.
However, there seem to be more problems with this issue,
as it is mentioned by users on other newsgroups too.
Using: Mozilla.

Thanks,