Question

Hi

i am new to Twiki and just started configuring a basic no authentication twiki on my win xp professional desktop.

While running the configure.pl script i sometime get the error

" Software error: Malformed multipart POST

For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

[Thu Mar 1 14:25:29 2007] configure.pl: Malformed multipart POST "

An interesting thing i note is that usually during the first run after modifying the config values, i click next and then twiki asks for authorization to save password and all goes fine. Now if i press back button and make some more edits, at times i get the error.

has it something to do with the CGI version i have?

Environment

-- SibiJoseph - 01 Mar 2007

Answer

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can anyone help pls?

-- SibiJoseph - 05 Mar 2007

no, its because you are hitting back after a commit. This is actually a bad thing to do. While some sites write quite a bit of code to work around it, re-submitting a form after changing values is not good.

you are better off clicking the return to configure link at the bottom of the save.

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Apr 2007