I have to submit some values to a form action page. I have no choice on the
far end: it is expecting POSTed form variables. On my end, though, this is
kind of a pain, because I need to do an intermediate, non-user step before
the submission. So my situation is:
UserForm - page on which user enters data.
ServerActionPage - page on which server does some stuff.
FormActionPage - page on far end that expects POSTed form variables.
I could set ServerActionPage to do its business in ColdFusion and put the
variables into hidden form fields, then have _javascript_ that on the client
side automatically submits the form. This puts one extra page in the middle
of the process for the user. Yes, I know, the user won't really see it, but
I always try to avoid that pesky "can't hit my back button" problem.
My question is this: is there some way to pass form variables that doesn't
require a client-side action? I have successfully experimented with adding
them to the query string, but I don't know whether this is something I can
rely on. In other words, I have turned:
<FORM name="myForm" action=""> method="POST">
<INPUT name="field1" value="A" type="hidden">
<INPUT name="field2" value="B" type="hidden">
<INPUT name="field3" value="C" type="hidden">
</FORM>
...into:
http://www.myserver.com/myFormAction.html?field1=A&field2=B&field3=C
Is this a bad practice? Will it work reliably?
Thanks in advance,
Matthieu
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