BUG: WWWQuote Sample Generates Error Message

ID: Q156076

The information in this article applies to:

The Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), included with:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 32-bit Edition, version 4.2

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 instance 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 this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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

Keywords : kbnokeyword kbISAPI kbMFC kbVC kbVC420bug kbMFC420bug
Version : winnt:
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug