Input question - data formats

[new2game]

I've done little html in the past and need to create a simple process. 1 textarea input with a submit button.

I have the page written. It successfully transmits data and a response is returned. The problem is that the input can contain spaces and other special charaters. The app that receives posts converts non-alphanumeric charcters. For example a post of "This is a test" is received as "This+is+a+test".

The text area can contain "CRLF", "?", "<", ">", "*", spaces and more. There charaters come out as hex values.

I don't know java script, vb etc and can't use ASP. Everything but the URL the form posts to will be residing on my desktop.

Any ideas?

page is a simple as

<P><TEXTAREA NAME="name" ROWS="15" COLS="74"></TEXTAREA></P>
<P><INPUT NAME="name" TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"></form>

new2game

 

[ChrisHirst]

is there a question in there? I may be just being thick this morning but I can't see what you are asking for!




Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

What form method are you using? Get or Post? Try changing to the other and see if you get the same results.

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[new2game]

Thanks Dan, tried changing 'Post' to 'Get'.... resp = 503.

Chris, a post of "This is a test" should not have the plus marks in it at the receiving end. Instead of getting "This+is+a+test" it should be "This is a test". So, the question is, how do I post data without non-alphanumeric characters like spaces, parens, brackets, question marks etc.. being converted to '+' and hex values etc...?

 

[dsdsdsdsd]

the app that is receiving the data is the issue; so what is the app;

once you know what language the app is you can then focus on the way that language parses strings;

more than likely whatever language it is (php,asp,server-side JS, ...) will only require a few lines of script to essentially undo what it did, that is if it turns your 'space' character into a '+' character you will need to turn it back into a 'space' character;