link directly to button result

[mflancour]

I have a link that I can't really provide, but I'll give an example.

https://somesite.com/affiliate_list.html?list_id=7&program_id=384

This link takes me to a dropdown and a button. in the drop down I pick either "zip" or a "text" then click a button. This then downloads a file of the type I just selected. Stupid question here, but is there any way to create a link that goes directly to one of those files..ie...

https://somesite.com/affiliate_list.html?list_id=7&program_id=384&value=zip&action=proceed

Here is a snip form the page source if that would help:

<b>File Type:</b>
<select name="file_type">
<option value="ZIP" selected>

ZIP file (.zip)
</option>
<option value="TEXT">
TEXT/CSV File -- no compression (.csv)
</option>
</select>
<br><br><input type="submit" value="proceed" class="button">

 

[feherke]

Hi

Stupid question here, but is there any way to create a link that goes directly to one of those files..ie...

Yes, there is. Did you tried ? If yes, was there any error ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[mflancour]

yes, I tried using a few different iterations of:

https://somesite.com/affiliate_list.html?list_id=7&program_id=384&value=zip&action=proceed

but I just don't know the right syntax. Nothings worked so far. Any notion what the syntax is?

 

[mflancour]

More code that is likely relevant:
<form action="affiliate_list.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="merchant_id" value=8550>
<input type="hidden" name="list_id" value=7>
<input type="hidden" name="program_id" value="384" />

<input type="hidden" name="step2" value="true">
<input type="hidden" name="download" value="true">
<div align="justify">
This specific merchant does not require you to upload your list. Merchant agrees to provide you the DNE list. Click on proceed to submit your request for this list.
<br>
<br/><br/>
<b>File Type:</b>
<select name="file_type">
<option value="ZIP" selected>

ZIP file (.zip)
</option>
<option value="TEXT">
TEXT/CSV File -- no compression (.csv)
</option>
</select>
<br><br><input type="submit" value="proceed" class="button">
</form>

 

[feherke]

Hi

Just want to ask the [tt]form[/tt]'s [tt]method[/tt]. Ok, so it is POST.

Is possible that your web application does not sende that file if the request is POST. So you may have to check the code. According to that HTML code, the URL should look like :

affiliate_list.php?merchant_id=8550&list_id=7&program_id=384&step2=true&download=true&file_type=ZIP

Or just use JavaScript to set the option and submit the [tt]form[/tt] :

<a href="" onclick="document.forms[0].file_type.selectedIndex=0;document.forms[0].submit();return false">download the zip</a>

In the above code I assumed that the [tt]form[/tt] is the first one from the document, because you did not added neither [tt]name[/tt] or [tt]id[/tt] attribute to the [tt]form[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ChrisHunt]

Yes, it's (probably) possible. It depends on whether your affiliate_list.php script can cope with data passed with [tt]method="get"[/tt] instead of [tt]method="post"[/tt]. Hopefully the script will be written that way.

If so, you just need to concoct a url that sends all the stuff that the form sends, to the same action URL that it sends it to. Like this:

https://somesite.com/affiliate_list...ue&download=true&file_type=ZIP&submit=proceed

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd