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Re: How to submit a hidden item in a form to a perl script?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Fri May 26 20:46:24 1995

Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 20:33:48 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: nazgul@utopia.com
From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>

At 5:20 PM 5/26/95, kappos@cti.gr wrote:
>    How can I submit a form having one hidden entry passed to the server
>so as to be able to get its name by $FORM('hidden') in a perl script?

I don't know what library you are using, but all you should have to do is

<input type=3Dhidden name=3Dfoo value=3Dbar>

and then $FORM{'foo'} (assuming someone has parsed the input and built %FORM

Kee Hinckley      Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81    617/721-6100
nazgul@utopia.com                               http://www.utopia.com/

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.



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