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changing action with appended key/value pairs in a POST
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| Scott R. Godin 2005-08-24, 3:55 am |
| I have a multi-stage cgi I'm currently working on, and as I progress thru the
stages (the form uses POST not GET for reasons of data-size) I was hoping to be
able to simply add ?step=confirm or ?step=finish to the form action
( -action=>"$htmlform{action}?step=confirm", ... )
However it's not working, and I'm getting the distinct impression that when the
action is a POST, CGI.pm ignores anything WRT the uri request line...
Is this true?
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| Todd W 2005-08-30, 3:55 am |
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"Scott R. Godin" <nospam@webdragon.net> wrote in message
news:20050823190950.27586.qmail@lists.develooper.com...
> I have a multi-stage cgi I'm currently working on, and as I progress thru
the
> stages (the form uses POST not GET for reasons of data-size) I was hoping
to be
> able to simply add ?step=confirm or ?step=finish to the form action
> ( -action=>"$htmlform{action}?step=confirm", ... )
>
> However it's not working, and I'm getting the distinct impression that
when the
> action is a POST, CGI.pm ignores anything WRT the uri request line...
>
> Is this true?
You could refer to the CGI.pm docs, specifically the part about mixing POST
and URL parameters:
http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-..._URL_PARAMETERS
if ($q->url_param('step') eq 'confirm' ) {
...
}
or put the step parameter in a hidden field in the html form:
<input type="hidden" name="step" value="confirm" />
You may also want to check out CGI::Application, it makes quick work of what
you are trying to do.
Todd W.
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| Scott R. Godin 2005-09-10, 6:55 pm |
| Todd W wrote:
> "Scott R. Godin" <nospam@webdragon.net> wrote in message
> news:20050823190950.27586.qmail@lists.develooper.com...
[snip]
[snip][color=darkred]
> You could refer to the CGI.pm docs, specifically the part about mixing POST
> and URL parameters:
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> http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-..._URL_PARAMETERS
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> if ($q->url_param('step') eq 'confirm' ) {
> ...
> }
[snip]
ahh url_param() ... had quite forgotten about that one. I was trying to avoid
the use of 'hidden' fields if at all possible. This should do nicely. Thanks for
the tip.
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