I have a rare CD-ROM database of a biography from the early 1900s. It is HTML and web-based. It installs as 2 separate CDs (which are stored as .ISO files) onto the hard drive.
I can then launch the search page with the icon that is created on the desktop, but when I try to do a search, nothing happens. No popup blockers are in effect that I am aware of, just nothing at all happens. However, this CD database worked fine previously.
The only weird things are that even when it did work, it only worked on Internet Explorer (possibly version 8?) and for whatever reason would not work on Chrome or Firefox. I am guessing the issue may have been introduced after I upgraded to Windows 10 last year.
Fig 1. This is what the CD-Rom's web interface start/home page looks like in Chrome
Fig 2. Simple Search page (after clicking "Word Search" in left menu), Chrome
My setup
OPERATING SYSTEM:
- Microsoft Windows: 10.0.14393 64-bit
BROWSERS:
- Google Chrome: 60.0.3112.66 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
- Firefox: 54.0.1 (32-bit)
- Microsoft Edge: 40.15063.0.0
- Internet Explorer: 11.483.15063.0
- Chrome Canary: 61.0.3158.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
- Torch Browser: 55.0.0.12195
- Comodo IceDragon: 52.0.0.4 (32-bit)
What I have tried
The first thing I did was try other browsers, all to no avail. The first time an error appears is when the "Search" button in top menu is clicked. The second error appears if "Word Search" in the left menu is pressed, a term is chosen to search for, and then the "Search" button pressed on the resulting "Simple Search" page. However, I inspected the developer console and got a slightly different message for each:
Chrome
Search-Top
leftmenuframe.htm:19
Uncaught ReferenceError: MM_goToURL is not defined
at HTMLImageElement.onclick (file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/leftmenuframe.htm:19:323)
Search-Left
simplesearchform.html:28
Uncaught ReferenceError: set_cookie is not defined
at HTMLInputElement.onclick (file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/simplesearchform.html:28:94)
Firefox
Search-Top
ReferenceError: MM_goToURL is not defined
file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/leftmenuframe.htm
Line 1
Search-Left
ReferenceError: set_cookie is not defined
file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/simplesearchform.html
Line 1
Edge:
Search-Top
Current window: /C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/default.htm
Current window: /C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/default.htm
SCRIPT5009: 'MM_goToURL' is undefined
leftmenuframe.htm (19,101)
Search-Left
SCRIPT5009: 'set_cookie' is undefined
simplesearchform.html (28,55)
Internet Explorer
I got a message about allowing ActiveX. Even after I OK'd that, these errors popped up in the console:
Search-Top
DOM7011: The code on this page disabled back and forward caching. For more information, see: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=291337
default.htm
HTML1300: Navigation occurred.
default.htm
HTML1524: Invalid HTML5 DOCTYPE. Consider using the interoperable form "".
default.htm (1,1)
Current window: /C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/default.htm
SCRIPT5009: 'MM_goToURL' is undefined
leftmenuframe.htm (19,101)
Search-Left
Canary
Search-Top
leftmenuframe.htm:19
Uncaught ReferenceError: MM_goToURL is not defined
at HTMLImageElement.onclick (file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/leftmenuframe.htm:19:323)
Search-Left
simplesearchform.html:28
Uncaught ReferenceError: set_cookie is not defined
at HTMLInputElement.onclick (file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/simplesearchform.html:28:94)
Torch
Search-Top
leftmenuframe.htm:19
Uncaught ReferenceError: MM_goToURL is not defined
at HTMLImageElement.onclick (file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/leftmenuframe.htm:19:323)
Search-Left
VM39 simplesearchform.html:28
Uncaught ReferenceError: set_cookie is not defined
at HTMLInputElement.onclick (file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Edgar%20Cayce%20Readings/simplesearchform.html:28:94)
IceDragon
Search-Top
ReferenceError: MM_goToURL is not defined[Learn More] leftmenuframe.htm:1:1
Search-Left
The character encoding of a framed document was not declared. The document may appear different if viewed without the document framing it. search_options.htm
The character encoding of a framed document was not declared. The document may appear different if viewed without the document framing it. cookiesManager.htm
ReferenceError: set_cookie is not defined[Learn More] simplesearchform.html:1:1
A form was submitted in the windows-1252 encoding which cannot encode all Unicode characters, so user input may get corrupted. To avoid this problem, the page should be changed so that the form is submitted in the UTF-8 encoding either by changing the encoding of the page itself to UTF-8 or by specifying accept-charset=utf-8 on the form element. simplesearchform.html
The character encoding of a framed document was not declared. The document may appear different if viewed without the document framing it. cookiesManager.htm
My questions
What is the root issue? How can I get my installed CD-Rom web application to work again?
Can this be fixed by updating Windows, drivers, or other software?
If this can't be fixed by software installs or updates, is there a simple way to hack (rename file types, replace deprecated functions, etc.) it so it will work with modern operating systems and browsers?
Update
By request I am adding the source code of the files as they read in Notepad++. The programming and functional parts appear to be in Visual Basic. I don't know much about VB at all, but it seems a lot of the characters are garbage, and possibly obfuscated. If there is some way to view the characters as "not garbage", please let me know!
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