Re: Posting with script tags, or a plea not to

Barry C. Hawkins wrote: Barry & Rasmus (you already figured this out, I'm sure), That's the problem, it's there but the browser is ignoring the <? ?> tag as unknown (just as it should). The only way Earthlink can fix that is to do an inline change of < to &lt; and > to &gt; when using the webmail side. Personally, I would say things are working exactly as they should. Mike...

Rasmus, I gathered info in several ways to hopefully save time. I composed a message containing a simple, one-line PHP echo function and sent it to myself. Not surprisingly, nothing showed in the message body when pulled up via the webmail app. The exhibits are displayed below. This message was composed via Outlook, just to eliminate any confusion. Message sent: Subject: PHP Test Message: <? echo "Earthlink Mailcenter Sucks." ?> Message received in Earthlink webmail: Subject: PHP Test Message: (nothing appears) View Source in IE 6.0: <snip> <TR> <TD ALIGN=RIGHT VALIGN=TOP> <FONT FACE="arial" size=1> <B>Subject: </B> </FONT> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <FONT FACE="arial" size=1> <B>PHP Test</B> </FONT> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2> <HR WIDTH=95%> <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH="90%"> <TR>

    <TD><IMG SRC="./images/spacer.gif" WIDTH=5 HEIGHT=10></TD>
    <TD>

<FONT SIZE=2> <PRE><FONT SIZE=2><? echo "Earthlink Mail Center Sucks." ?>

</PRE>    </FONT>
    </TD>
    <TD><IMG SRC="./images/spacer.gif" WIDTH=5 HEIGHT=10></TD>

</TR> </snip> Earthlink Mailcenter's "view source" hyperlink to "mimeget.php3?": <snip> Subject: PHP Test Sender: barry.hawkins@mindspring.com Message-ID: <Springmail.0994.1018574349.0.20502200@webmail.atl.earthlink.net> X-Originating-IP: 66.149.18.3 <? echo "Earthlink Mail Center Sucks." ?> </snip> Thanks,