How do I pass form info to autoresponder like GetResponse?

[PaulPay]

I want to add a newsletter signup form to my ASP website and then have the newsletter automatically emailed to the client.

I want to use a hosted email/autorresponder company because of the spam issues are all handled by them.

I contacted hosted email/autoresponder company GetResponse ($17/month) and generated their HTML Form to capture the first_name and email_address to add to my website. I installed the HTML, but the info was not passed to GetResponse.

My ASP webmaster said the HTML won't work and I need to add Response.Redirect(URL) to my aspx.cs page.

Unfortunately, GetResponse does not know how to do this.

I also checked with ConstantContact and they also don't know from ASP.

Anybody have any thoughts on how to proceed?

Cheers,
Paul Nisenbaum in Los Angeles

[jhardman]

Paul,

This sounds confusing. Why do you need response.redirect? the form supplied by GetResponse should have everything you need. Could you post code or a link?

Jared

[PaulPay]

Jared,
Thanks for taking a look at this --- it's driving me nuts.

I copied the GetResponse HTML (to be used for a newsletter signup) into my aspx page. The form and confirmation pop-up worked fine, but the first_name and email_address did not get passed to Get Response.

I contacted GetResponse tech support and this is what they wrote:

Paul,Your website is created is asp and the form is directing to
your site, not ours: <form id="aspnetForm" action="newslettersign.aspx"
method="post" name="aspnetForm">. That is what causes
that the sign ups are not being added to your account.

I contacted my webmaster and this is what he wrote:

Basically, if you want to play, at the end of the code behind the form (cs file) you want under the protected void btnSubmit_Click (...) {}
code there will be a Response.Redirect (if there isn't you want to add it)

The Response.Redirect(URL) allows you to post to another site.

Here is the HTML code from GetResponse that creates the form and confirmation popup.

<!-- GetResponse subscription form | start -->
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  function popupXY(fileName, x, y) {
    window.open(fileName, 'popup', 'toolbar=no, scrollbars=yes, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no, resizable=no, width='+x+', height='+y);
  }
</SCRIPT>
 
<form action="http://www.getresponse.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi" method="post" TARGET="popup" id="GRSubscribeForm" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<fieldset>
<table><tr>
<td><label for="GRCategory2">Your first name</label>:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="category2" size="14" id="GRCategory2" /></td>
</tr><tr>
<td><label for="GRCategory3">Your primary e-mail</label>:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="category3" size="14" id="GRCategory3" /></td>
</tr></table>
<input type="submit" onclick="popupXY('wait.html', 350, 500);" value="Subscribe Now!" />
<p>
Service provided by <a href="http://www.GetResponse.com/index/pnbiz/" title="GetResponse Autoresponders">GetResponse Autoresponders</a>
</p>
</fieldset>
<input type="hidden" name="category1" value="epg_newsletters"/>
<input type="hidden" name="confirmation" value="http://www.epaymentguru.com/newsletterthankyou.aspx" />
<input type="hidden" name="ref" value="0001" />
</form>
 
<style>
 #GRSubscribeForm fieldset {
  width: 260px;
  border: 0;
 }
 
 /* comment about GetResponse */
 #GRSubscribeForm p {
  font-size: x-small;
 }
 
 /* table used to position form elements */
 #GRSubscribeForm table {
  border: 0;
 }
</style>
<!-- GetResponse subscription form | end --> 

[jhardman]

Paul,

Open the form in a browser, check the source code, what does the form tag say as your browser sees it? (I just want to make sure your asp page isn't altering it in some way.)

Jared

[PaulPay]

Jared,

Since I don't know too much about this, I am guessing this is the form tag when I check the source from IE.

   <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="newslettersigngr.aspx" id="aspnetForm">

If you want, you can take a look. The page is on my site, but not from a navigation button.

ePaymentGuru Newsletter Sign Up - special page with GetResponse Form - http://www.epaymentguru.com/newslettersigngr.aspx

Cheers,
Paul
BTW, I am in Los Angeles. It's 12:10 am PST.

Paul,

Open the form in a browser, check the source code, what does the form tag say as your browser sees it? (I just want to make sure your asp page isn't altering it in some way.)

Jared

[jhardman]

Jared,

Since I don't know too much about this, I am guessing this is the form tag when I check the source from IE.

   <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="newslettersigngr.aspx" id="aspnetForm">

If you want, you can take a look. The page is on my site, but not from a navigation button.

ePaymentGuru Newsletter Sign Up - special page with GetResponse Form - http://www.epaymentguru.com/newslettersigngr.aspx

Cheers,
Paul
BTW, I am in Los Angeles. It's 12:10 am PST.

OK, the action needs to be changed to:

http://www.getresponse.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi

This might take the user off site without sending them back (I don't know how they work it at getResponse) so you might want the form to open in a new window. But there is no reason that I see why you wouldn't want to send the form data to them in the first place. Were you trying to collect that info separately?

Jared

I'm in Utah, so not too far off.