Dynamic generation of action string?

[Martin Mrazek]

Hi,
I have a HTML form and need to generate the action-string (what to do
after submission) from values of textfields in the form. It means
something like
<form method="post" action=whatToDo.value>
<input name="whatToDo" value="http:\www.myPage.com\cgi-bin\DoDefault">
....
</form>

It seems some error is there - don't you know how to make it
functional?

Martin

[Steve Pugh]

mr****@compik.fd.cvut.cz (Martin Mrazek) wrote:

I have a HTML form and need to generate the action-string (what to do
after submission) from values of textfields in the form. It means
something like

<form method="post" action=whatToDo.value>
<input name="whatToDo" value="http:\www.myPage.com\cgi-bin\DoDefault">
...
</form>

It seems some error is there - don't you know how to make it
functional?

You could do it with JavaScript, but a better idea (i.e. one that will
always work) would be to submit to a single script on that server and
have that script exmaine the relevant input and pass the rest of the
inputs onto the relevant other scripts.

Steve

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[Lachlan Hunt]

Martin Mrazek wrote:

Hi,
I have a HTML form and need to generate the action-string (what to do
after submission) from values of textfields in the form. It means
something like
<form method="post" action=whatToDo.value>
<input name="whatToDo" value="http:\www.myPage.com\cgi-bin\DoDefault">
...
</form>

You could do it with JavaScript, but this would not work for anyone
with JavaScript disabled or not supported, however this was somewhat
discussed on www-html last February, in the thread "Multiple actions for
forms" [1]. The first response to this, by Mark Birbeck [2], mentioned
that XForms will be able to fulfill this functionality. However, until
XForms is widely implemented in the core functionality (ie. not
requiring a plugin that most people don't have) in the vast majority of,
at least, the popular UAs, then you'll have you use server side processing.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/...4Feb/0004.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/...4Feb/0005.html
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[Alan J. Flavell]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Martin Mrazek wrote:

I have a HTML form and need to generate the action-string (what to do
after submission) from values of textfields in the form.
I'd recommend reviewing that supposed "need", because the WWW isn't
ready to fulfil it for you. Why can't you handle all the requests
with a single server-side script, and resolve any further details
behind that? It's the usual way that people successfully address this
kind of requirement.
It means something like

<form method="post" action=whatToDo.value>
<input name="whatToDo" value="http:\www.myPage.com\cgi-bin\DoDefault">

Does it, really? If your own bogosity alarms don't trigger on seeing
backslashes in an http: URL, then there seems to be a problem.

[D. Stussy]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Martin Mrazek wrote:

I have a HTML form and need to generate the action-string (what to do
after submission) from values of textfields in the form. It means
something like
<form method="post" action=whatToDo.value>
<input name="whatToDo" value="http:\www.myPage.com\cgi-bin\DoDefault"> ^
I don't know if that was a typo - should be "http://www.myPage.com/cgi-...."
Only 1 slash and of the wrong type.
...
</form>

It seems some error is there - don't you know how to make it
functional?