[thelist] Can Someone Deconstruct this line of code?

[Green, Janet]

Can someone tell me what the various parts are of this line of code? 

<form method="POST" action="../_vti_bin/shtml.dll/GDMLI/gdmli.htm"
onsubmit="return FrontPage_Form1_Validator(this)" name="FrontPage_Form1"
webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">

This is from a form that was created last year by another web developer and
run on another server, apparently using Front Page... We do have Front Page
extensions on *our* server which is hosting the form THIS year...  so I was
hoping the same form would work this year. It doesn't work, and I'm trying
to figure out why. I do have _vti_bin on my server, although not in the root
directory for this particular domain name... can I just copy and paste the
_bin into that domain's root directory? 

Other clues: I believe that gdmli.htm was the name of the index page of the
site at this time last year, so I'm trying to understand what is happening
in the "action" part of this line. The form is being submitted to _vti_bin,
where it runs through a .dll called shtml.dll... then what happens? 

Finally, what the heck is "webbot" and what happens when this part of the
line executes? 

Basically I'm trying to figure out why this form gives me an error called
"HTTP error 405 Method Not Allowed" - Is "post" an inappropriate method to
be used with this action?? I'm trying to understand what's going on in the
code so I can figure out why it's not working, but I am a page designer who
is TRYING VERY HARD to learn "trial by fire" about making forms work the way
they are supposed to. If anyone would care to email me offlist, I'd welcome
the chance to sort this out. And, please do post any thoughts about this
convoluted mess to the list. Thanks. 
Janet