passing variable and changing location

[Idee]

Hi everyone,

I want to click on a link and pass some values and when that page is displayed, the address bar should not display the actual location of the file. Moreover I don't want to pass variables using url.

What i thought was that some function will be called whether hyperlink is clicked or a button is submitted and depending upon the values passed, either the corresponding file is directed using <cflocation> or file can be included.

But how to actually implement it.., no idea. I tried to use <cflocation in javascript but didn't work..

<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
function change(id){
<cfif id NEQ &quot;&quot;>
<cflocation url=&quot;test.cfm&quot;>
</cfif>
}
</script>

This function is called on clicking the href, it entered the function and was displaying the correct value of id but didn't do anything.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

 

[cfvogue]

You could submit a form by clicking a link i guess.
Just give your form the method=&quot;post&quot; attribute.

<form name=&quot;MyForm&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;actionpage.cfm&quot;>
<a href=&quot;javascript:document.MyForm.submit();&quot;>some text</a>
</form>

 

[r937]

no offence, but might this be another example of trying to solve the wrong problem -- see

http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Fix_the_wrong_problem

the main problem i see is that you don't want the address bar to show the location

solution: go ahead and show the location, i.e. the specific url, using a scheme that is next-to-impossible to break -- random identifiers

if there are very many of these files, you will probably be using a database, in which case generating random identifiers is easy

if there are only a few files, you can maintain a list of random identifiers in coldfusion in several ways

when people see the following url, what do they learn from it?

http://example.com/listfile.cfm?file=42Be4Md0vw1384

what possible way do they have of getting anything other than that file?

okay, yes, people can guess

but suppose i told you that there are only a hundred identifiers available?

how long would it take you to guess one of them?


rudy

http://r937.com/