Forms, Norton, Port 80 and Other Mysteries

Hello All

Can anyone throw light on what I've been seeing today...

All of a sudden some new ASP (vbscript) pages that I started today began acting up. Anything between the <FORM> and </FORM> tags wouldn't appear on the rendered page.

for example a if page that looked like...

*** Just BEFORE The FORM
<FORM Action='me.asp' ...>
*** IN The FORM
</FORM>

... was yielding output like ...
*** Just BEFORE The FORM
... and nothing else (you'd usually expect to see the *** IN The FORM message too).

When developing locally, this sort of thing is usually resolved by shutting Norton Internet Security off. Tody it seemed to be happening to my with the pages posted up on the DiscountASP server.

Oddly enough pages that have been up for months with FORM tags and POSTS are working fine.

After some frustrating experimentation I found that Norton had Port 80 set in its HTTP Port List. If I took 80 out things seemed to work OK - both locally and for the new pages on the server.

Is it bad to have port 80 out of the list?
Is it good to have 80 in the list??
Would it be normal for pages with FORMS to become so disfigured when viewing a page on a PC with Port 80 hindered in this way???

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

PeteB

 

Thanks for your input.

I'd like to say you were right, but I tested itwith a 4 line ASP page with a FORM open and close tag and a fewlines of debug text to show where it was getting to - not much to go wrong.

When Port 80 was removed from Norton Internet Security it worked when put back in it stopped - every time.

If I have time tomorrow I'll try and replicate it and post the actual VB Script here.

Thanks again.