Automatically Sumbit A Form

[hunter13605]

i have a 3 case if else system that decides on which user type a person is. The only thing that i could find to automatically submit the form is...

if ($match == 3)
{
  print "<FORM ACTION=admin.pl METHOD='AutoPOST' NAME='sendtoadmin'>";
  print "<INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='pin' VALUE=$pin>";  
  print "<INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='password' VALUE=$password>";
  print "</FORM>";
  print "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
	document.sendtoadmin.submit();
  </SCRIPT>";
}

i don't like doing it this way because it shows the username and password in the address bar. Is thes another way to automatically submit a form without displaying the information in the address bar? Possibly an OnLoad script.

 

[KevinADC]

This is really a CGI scripting question, or maybe even a javascript question, but why not use the correct method:

METHOD='POST'

I never heard of method autoPost.

 

[hunter13605]

That is code that i found after 2 hours of searching google. I don't really want to use Java script but that was the only solution that i could find at the time. Also, how do i post in the cgi forum?

 

[KevinADC]

you post in the CGI forum exactly the same way as in the perl forum:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=452

did you try my suggestion?

 

[hunter13605]

Thanks, i had forgotten to try that but i just did and problem solved. I can't remember why it said to put AutoPOST instead of POST but that was the problem. Thanks for all your help now and in the past.

 

[hunter13605]

one more quick question... Do pearl files have to go in the cgi-bin folder? I have always put them in there because i got a book that said that they wouldn't work if they weren't.

 

[KevinADC]

Most web servers are setup to only run scripts from the cgi-bin. They don't have to, but the server configuration files would have to be changed to allow script execution from other folders.

BTW: perl, not pearl.

 

[hunter13605]

alright, thanks for your help. Sorry about the spelling.