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BUG: WWWQuote Sample Generates Error Message

Article ID: 156076

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

Microsoft Foundation Class Library 4.2, when used with:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Learning Edition

This article was previously published under Q156076

SYMPTOMS

The WWWQuote sample reports the following error when trying to bring up a new page from the Welcome page.

BAD REQUEST
Your client sent a request that this server didn't understand.
Request:

CAUSE

The HTML in the sample that is generated for the pages has a bug that prevents the DLL from correctly parsing the input from these pages.

RESOLUTION

Modify all the .htm files as shown below to fix the problem.

Replace all instances of

NAME="MfcISAPICommmand"

with the following:

NAME="MfcISAPICommand"

Note that the original .htm files have an extra [ASCII 147]m[ASCII 148] in MfcISAPICommand. Rebuild the DLL.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This has been fixed in the WWWQuote sample that shipped with Visual C++ version 5.0 or later.

MORE INFORMATION

The files that contain the bug are:

issueerr.htm
next.htm
prev.htm
quoteerr.htm
selhead.htm
settail.htm
welcome.htm

You can open these files by expanding the dependency files in Fileview for the project, and double-clicking the .htm file.

Additional query words: WWWQuote

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