LoadVariablesNum on button to access cgi script mail form

Question

Greetings: I've used this method many times in the past to create an email form in a movie clip with a "send button" that accesses a perl, cgi script to email text input fields. It worked fine in past versions of Flash, but now I'm using Flash CS3 (v9.0, AS 2.0). I've tried 3 different cgi scripts I found online for this purpose and am sure the configurations for sendmail server & perl bins, etc are correct. All of the other "if" and "else" statements on the button work fine. But I can see a Safari (browser) error message saying POST was not used, but clearly it is. I'm trying to trouble shoot whether the problem is from the flash button or the cgi script.
Has something changed in Flash CS3 from previous versions, where I'm certain it has worked before???
Here is my button code:
on (release) {
//Make sure the user filled in all the required fields.
if (name1 ne "" and name2 ne "" and subject ne "" and email ne "") {
//Check to make sure the email address includes and @.
i = "0";
validmail = 0;
while (Number(i)<=Number(length(email))) {
if (substring(email, i, 1) eq "@") {
validmail = 1;
i = Number(i)+1;
//If there's no @ in the email go to the error page.
if (Number(validmail) == 0) {
gotoAndStop("error");
} else {
//The line below assumes the script is in the same directory as the HTML page.
loadVariablesNum("http://www.companyname.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl", 0, "POST");
//Go to the confirmation frame.
gotoAndStop("thankyou");
} else {
//if the user left required fields blank, show them an error message.
gotoAndStop("error");
Here is the error message I can access on Safari>window>activity:
"The HTML form fails to specify the POST method, so it would not be correct for this script to take any action in response to your request.
If you are attempting to configure this form to run with FormMail, you need to set the request method to POST in the opening form tag, like this: <form action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post">
Why isn't the command from the button in the Flash swf file, being recognized by the html page?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Janis

Answer 1

in version 6, case didn't count. after version 6, it counts.
so, gotoandPlay(3), used to work but, not now.  you need to use gotoAndPlay(3).
also, undefined numeric variables were assigned a default value of 0 with flash 6 and prior.  not now, they're undefined.  so, watch for code like
while(var1<1){
do something
var1++;
where var1 is never initialized.
about policy files:  check the security class'es loadPolicyFile() method.