RE: Content Advisor

["Gimon, Charles A" <CAGimon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is the likely problem:

Innopac codes the patron login form like so:

<FORM METHOD=POST>

Note that this is not valid HTML, the ACTION attribute is required:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/interact/forms.html#h-17.3

Lacking an explicit ACTION or METHOD, the browser sends 

GET /

to the server.

The problem is that GET / is also the http request that IE Content Advisor 
sends to the server to retrieve ratings information. This conflicts with
what the III server is trying to do, so the end user goes nowhere.

The solution is for III to recode their forms with a valid FORM tag, with
explicit ACTION and METHOD attributes.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cleveland, David - HPL 
> [mailto:David.Cleveland@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:41 AM
> To: 'innopac@xxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Content Advisor
> 
> 
> We have also had trouble with the Content Advisor in IE.  The 
> only thing that has ever worked for me is to turn it off 
> while viewing the patron account details.  
> 
> David Cleveland
> Houston Public Library
> IT Help Desk
> 832.393.1570
> hpl.helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxx
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