Simple question I hope!

[Adrian]

Hi
I want to write a form that when a user presses submit it carries out the
submit action and then closes the browser or redirects to another page.

The form CGI I'm using, Demon's does not allow this and the default page and
message is , well, crap!

Can this be done?

Thanks

Adrian

[Grant Wagner]

Find out precisely what script your ISP is using. Yes, it's called "mailform",
but is it "mailform.p l" that's described here: <url:
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/support/cgi_mailform.html />

If so, then you simply need to read the documentation:

Field: REDIRECT

Description:
If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them
see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this hidden variable
to send them to a pre-made HTML page.

Syntax:
To choose the URL they will end up at:
<input type=hidden name="redirect"
value="http://your.host.com/to/file.html">
To allow them to specify a URL they wish to travel to once the form is
filled out:
<input type=text name="redirect" >

Or, if you prefer, the documentation here: <url:
http://www.bci.org/info/using_formmailcgi.htm />

Google is a wonderful thing: <url:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mailform+cgi+redirect />

Adrian wrote:

Hi Eric,
I have tried:
<input type="hidden" name="_1_Succes sDocument"
value="http://uk.altavista.co m/">
<input type="hidden" name="_1_Succes sDocument" value="index.ht m">

Neither had changed the page displayed! did I enter them correctly? If so I
guess demon have tweaked their script!

Thanks

Adrian

"Eric Klein" <er********@mss m.edu> wrote in message
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for mailform the hidden field should be _1_SuccessDocum ent
good luck

Eric Klein
er********@mssm .edu
http://www.mssm.edu/students/kleine04
"Adrian" <Ad************ *@NOSPAMhotmail .com> wrote in message

news:<bk******* ************@ne ws.demon.co.uk> ...

Hi,
Thanks but I guess its not formail.pl as redirect didn't work!

The form tag is :
<form action="/cgi-bin/mailform" method="get">

And the ISP is www.demon.net

if that helps

Thanks

Adrian

"Eric Klein" <er********@mss m.edu> wrote in message
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> If you are using formail.pl, the hidden field is called "redirect".
>
> Eric Klein
> <a href="mailto:er ********@mssm.e du>er********@m ssm.edu</a>
> <a
href="http://www.mssm.edu/students/kleine04">http://www.mssm.edu/students/kl eine04</a>
>
>
> "The Plankmeister" <pl************ ******@hotmail. com> wrote in message
news:<3f******* *************** *@dread16.news. tele.dk>...
> > > I want to write a form that when a user presses submit it carries out the
> > > submit action and then closes the browser or redirects to another
page.
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, then you want the form processing to be done
> > on the page locally, rather than on the server?
> >
> > If so... well... It is possible to write a javascript function to
'validate'
> > the form and perform pretty much any 'local' operations of the info... > > However, usually for a form to be of any use it needs to send its data to
> > the server.
> >
> > If all you want to do is rewrite the form in a fancy way so that it
looks
> > nice, you can do that and still submit the form data to the cgi script. > > However, getting it to redirect to another page after submission is
another
> > matter... I'm pretty sure that you cannot change that behaviour, as upon > > processing the cgi script, its output is sent to the browser directly. So
> > unless you can modify the cgi script, you're stuck. Unless there is a > > parameter you can pass to the cgi script that will redirect it
somewhere.
> > Which is doubtful.
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > P.

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