cgi bin counter

[Guest]

i am perplexed...i cannot view the updated counter on webpages that are cgi
bin based. i only see a "0". pls advise what i need to do as i previously
had no problem viewing. i have refreshed pages with no results. i can view
other types of cgi bin components but not counter! help!

 

[Jerry McEwen]

i am perplexed...i cannot view the updated counter on webpages that are cgi
bin based. i only see a "0". pls advise what i need to do as i previously
had no problem viewing. i have refreshed pages with no results. i can view
other types of cgi bin components but not counter! help!

That sounds impossible, can you point me to a counter you say won't
work for you?

 

[Guest]

pls go to www.pasofinofinder.com and counter is at bottom of page. i had a
friend access the page and she could see the current number. i went to my
counter manager on att.net and confirmed that the counter is moving. i just
can't see it on my computer/browser. thx!

 

[Jerry McEwen]

pls go to www.pasofinofinder.com and counter is at bottom of page. i had a
friend access the page and she could see the current number. i went to my
counter manager on att.net and confirmed that the counter is moving. i just
can't see it on my computer/browser. thx!

How perplexing, but I still say it's pretty unlikely that it's really
not working on your computer because it executes on the server and
that is obviously not at your house. My guess is that you have the
page stored in your cache. I've had problems getting IE to empty same.

 

[Guest]

ok, will check ie on emptying again. thx for your time and help.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

can you point me to a counter you say won't work for you?

pls go to www.pasofinofinder.com and counter is at bottom of page.

<source>
<img src="/cgi-bin/counter.gif?nueva.vida_01" align="left" width="54"
height="49" style="font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold; color: #FFFFFF">
</source>

That image is cacheable? (Odd). Set Work Offline
(e.g. press Alt-F,W) and enter this URL:
http://home.att.net/cgi-bin/counter.gif?nueva.vida_01

(You could use View Source yourself to verify that this is the same URL
which you should be seeing.)

With that URL showing whatever it shows, press Ctrl-F5 and reconnect.

When I do that the number I had is changed to 0. (That's logical;
the request did not have a Referer with it so the host would not want
to include that request in its statistic.)

Now press Back. I'm seeing zero still; so the host must have sent
an Etag with that 0 which is now being used to refresh the old page.
Press Ctrl-F5 on this page. Now I see the counter again.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle

 

[TBA]

I and a freind have the same problem ever since installing Internet
Explorer 6 with updates with OS of Windows XP. We can no longer view
our simple cgibin webpage counters. We get a white block with a red X
in it. We can view the counter fine with Netscape 7. Anyone know a
fix for Internet Explorer 6 for this problem?