Forms

[SamHale]

Hey,

I havn't used form's in ages, and have recently set one up for a friend of mine. I've noticed the forms are now emailed as 'POSTDATA.ATT', where as before the answers where written as text within the email.

The HTML tag that i've used is;

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:blah@hotmail.com">

has this tag changed since I last used forms?

Please help.

Sam.

 

[tviman]

Naturally, the form fields are being "attached" to the email because there is no method to place them within the body of the text. IMHO, it's not a good idea to use mailto: as a form action because of the security holes it opens up. If it were me, I'd send the data through a server-side script (I prefer perl) to: validate & verify the data before sending it through a sendmail (or similar) routine.

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[SamHale]

Hey,

I was thinking of setting up a database driven form using Asp.net, but found out IIS isn't possible on XP Home Edition, and i'm not going to update just for that.

Perl is another form of IIS isn't it ?

Is there another way to use IIS on Home Edition, I did search for awhile, but could not find anything positive.

The form really isn't of much importance, more of a comments form. Is there a program that opens up the .ATT's ? Notepad, Dreamweaver, Internet Explorer all do not.

Thanks for your help,
Sam.

 

[YNOTU]

but found out IIS isn't possible on XP Home Edition"

Not tru SamHale.

It is possible but it takes some careful manipulation...

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[manarth]

Perl is another form of IIS isn't it ?

Perl is a language, just like asp, java, c, etc.

Perl is often used for scripting actions carried out using CGI. You need a Perl capable parser on your server in order to make use of it.

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