AW: [Zope] Source from form result.
Dieter Maurer
dieter@handshake.de
Wed, 2 May 2001 20:18:30 +0200 (CEST)
Marc Fischer writes:
> The page I want to extract (you are right ... its on an external server)
> does not work with passing the variables in the url. I mean ...
>
> http://server?x=a&y=b does not work.
>
> I need to do it with a form like:
>
> <form action="http://server" method=POST>
> <input type=hidden name="x" value="a">
> <input type=hidden name="y" value="b">
> <input type=submit>
> </form>
>
> That's my big big problem. Btw, ... its legal :-)))
Apparently, your server wants to get a "POST" request.
You will not get "POST" requests with simple "<a href...>" elements.
These elements generate "GET" requests only.
You may succeed with JavaScript, but I am not familiar
enough to tell this for sure.
Dieter