links and cgi-bin output

• From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
• Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 07:22:29 +0100
• To: www-html@www10.w3.org
• Message-Id: <9512190722.ZM6583@jones.res.enst.fr>

Hi.

        This may be a simple question, but...  It isn't at all obvious to me.

        I have a cgi script that translates a document into HTML, and
inserts link points into it in the form of <dt id="..."> and <p id="...">.
So far, simple enough.  The document may have many of these...

        Now, when I generate a reference to one of these link points within
the document,

        <a href="http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/converter.pl?word=run#V.3.">

which is supposed to run the converter script for "word=run", and go to the
anchor <p id="V.3."> within that document, this doesn't seem to work...

        Am I missing something?  Can't you make a reference to an arbitrary
point in a URL when the URL is a CGI script output?  Does this only work
for precomputed (ie. static) documents?  I thought the positioning took
place within the browser, anyway...

        What gives?

Thanks,

-Philip

Received on Tuesday, 19 December 1995 01:22:47 UTC