Ian, that's exactly what I was looking for, a server response that asks the browser to submit a form, the form analog of what cflocation does. It doesn't surprise me that no such thing exists.
Dave Merrill > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:09 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFLOCATION, but with a form > > Semi-relevant: cfhttp can submit a form with specified data > to a specified url, but the whole thing happens on the > server, without the browser relocating anywhere. What I'm > looking for is just like that, but navigating the browser to > that submitted pg. > > Dave Merrill > > I am not seeing how this mechanism would work. You want the > server to build a request for the client so that the client > ends up somewhere else by submitting a form post? This > sounds like a mixing of the server/client - request/response schema. > > <cflocation...> generates a response to the client request. > This is a response (HTTP status 301 IIRC) that the client > recognizes. Most browsers then handle this response by > sending a new request to the suggested location. But of > course they do not have to do this. > > There are no responses that I know of that suggests the > browser to make a new form post request. I have done > something like this in the ancient past (10 years ago) by > building an HTML form with a JavaScript auto-submit that is > sent to the browser. Of course this may not be looked on too > friendly in todays environment and would be easily defeated. > > Bottom line: NO I know of no way to do this and it does not > make sense to me from a client/server perspective. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:295068 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
