Toubabou

December 23, 2006

HTML form tricks

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Well, I wasted a lot of time today trying to get a certain web form to process correctly. I finally determined that the method was changing from “POST”, which I had set in the form, to “GET”. Considerable investigation later, and not finding the answer anywhere else, I discovered that if you specify “http://” in the ref of the the action you can only use a “GET” method. In order to use “POST”, you have to use a local action file.

Well, I’m glad it’s behind me, now. I’m not sure what other words I should put in this post to help it be found in a search…

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