PDF Form Submit not returning to web page

klaz2002 · Oct 19, 2004

I have a PDF form with a submit box. I have set the widget's action to submit form. Everything works great! In other words data is submitted to the webserver. On my webserver I have the target URL set to read the fields and then redirect the user/client to another page that says their 'form has been submitted'. I noticed that the redirected page has local address in the address box at the top of the page.

This tells me that while the redirection worked, it only recreated the message page in local cache. Does anyone know why this happends? I also noticed that Adobe (my pdf plugin) does not close after I navigate away from the page (ie. my message page). Could this be the problem? Has anyone bumped into this before?
Klaz

klaz2002 · Oct 20, 2004

I found a solution to this problem (another Adobe workaround). It seems that Adobe has this issue with their plugin for almost three versions.

I have the 'submit script' (ie. CGI) redirect to a web page that has the following META tag.

Code:

<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <title>End</title>
<meta http-equiv= "refresh" content="0;url=http://www.ws.com/Default.aspx" >
  </HEAD>
  <body>
  </body>
</HTML>

What this does is redirect the browser to where I left off.
Pretty kloogy, but what're you gonna do??

Klaz

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PDF Form Submit not returning to web page

klaz2002

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