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Mootools Request, IIS, PHP: HTTP Error 403.1 – Forbidden: Execute access is denied

November 15th, 2008 under code | 1 Comment »

Recently I came across a “HTTP Error 403.1 – Forbidden: Execute access is denied” error on a site running on IIS. I was using Mootools to make Request calls from a flash site to a php script to print out the data in a simple lightbox type display. Just calling the request like so:

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var req = new Request({ url:'showPiece.php?'+ur, 
			onSuccess: function(html) {...

will cause the server to through an error, but by adding the method param to the request call like so:

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var req = new Request({method: 'GET', url:'showPiece.php?'+ur, 
			onSuccess: function(html) {...

everything works fine.

NOTE: make sure that you use “GET” not “get”, because:
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Horizontal Navigation, a how to: XHTML, CSS, Sprite

July 15th, 2008 under code, tutorial | 3 Comments »

In this post I’d like to show you how I build horizontal navigation using XHTML and CSS. For this and all my future tutorials feel free to download the source files at the end. If you’re the type that likes to do it on your own, and I hope you are, you can download my web project template here to get you started.

Here’s a screen shot of this tutorials end result:

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