My .py CGI script works in IE but not Netscape

Chris Wise cwise at ses.swin.edu.au
Fri May 31 23:05:25 EDT 2002


Chris wrote:

> My script doesnt work in Netscape for some reason. I'm developing on a
> UNIX envionrment with Python 2.2.1. I open up Netscape in windows and
> only the background picture of my webpage loads... nothing else.
> However in IE it works perfectly. Any general ideas as to what may be
> going on? Thanks.

Use view source in both browsers to examine the script's HTML output. 
Unless you are deliberately detecting the browser type and altering the 
output on that basis, the output should be the same. Possibly you are  
outputting invalid HTML and IE is tolerating it, whereas Netscape is not.

Chris Wise



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