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Jun 24, 2002, 3:56 AM
ryel01
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Redirect & Form Submit in one?
hi,

can anyone tell me if it's possible to have a page that will automatically redirect you "and" submit a form to the page you're being redirected to?

if it is possible, can you tell me how?

I know the redirect is possible with a simple..

Code:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.thissite.com/">

but how to submit a form too I'm not exactly sure.

cheers!

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Jun 24, 2002, 3:57 AM
Andy
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Huh? Why not send to a CGI script to get the data, and then use;

print "Location: http://www.yoursite.com/apge.htm \n\n";

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Jun 24, 2002, 4:49 AM
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Jun 24, 2002, 4:49 AM
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If I understand what you're asking, you could use a javascript solution. Just have all the form data as hidden inputs and then use:

<body onLoad="javascript:document.nameofform.submit();">

Or something to that effect...
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Jun 25, 2002, 5:12 AM
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Jun 25, 2002, 5:12 AM
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I think he means on a site he does not "control". You need to look at the form structure and you generally should be able to pass the fields as post key/value pairs in the url.

For example, if the form on site http://presidents.com was calling /processForm.cgi in the form tag and had fields fName and lName, you could try calling it like:

http://foo.com/processForm.cgi?fName=Abraham&lName=Lincoln&Submit=1

With that said, any script I personally ever create that takes post arguments checks the referer, so you'd see the message:

Some fool at $ENV{REFERER} is calling my forms remotely!

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oldmoney: Jun 25, 2002, 5:13 AM