Maybe this will help
http://www.rebol.cz/~rebol/cgi/
At 09:44 AM 6/8/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>uhm, I'll try to explain what I want to do.
>
>The site I'm looking at is a company that sell DVD movies. They have a
>function to search for movies. I want to be able to make that search, not by
>going to their homepage and typing in the form below, but just to enter an
>URL (or send an URL from a Rebol script actually), and then parse the
>returned page to get the info I want. The problem is that I don't know the
>syntax of the URL being sent (if it's possible to use an URL). IE. one of
>their links show something like:
>
>http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?category=Horror
>
>if I press that link I get a list of all the horror movies. However, when it
>comes to the search form, I'm unable to figure out what the URL should look
>like. I've tried for example:
>
>http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?title=Scream
>
>However, this isn't working, and I'd like to know what the info being sent
>to their script look like, so I can reproduce it in my Rebol script.
>
>As I see it, there's only thing I can do. Learn what all those ? = & etc.
>mean in a form posted URL and use trial and error... Or if I can capture the
>info sent from the form somehow to read and be able to reproduce it from a
>script.
>
>//Regards Stefan Falk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: den 7 juni 2000 20:03
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:
>
>
>Hey Stefan,
>I dont quite understand what your trying to do, but I will try to give you
>some
>information you may be able to use anyways.
>
>As you should already know HTTP servers take information from forms and pass
>it
>to a CGI program using POST or GET. The GET request can pass data via URL
>encoding such as "www.foobar.com/test.cgi?test=on".
>
>With POST, your data is sent additionally, not as part of a URL. This
>prevents
>your data from being viewed or entered as a URL, and as I understand was
>inpart
>the reason they came up with POST.
>
>Hope I helped,
>--Ryan
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>> this might not be Rebol related directly, but since I intend to use the
>info
>> for a rebol script I guess it's ok. Anyways, here we go.
>>
>> There's a page with a search form, and I'd like to know what the POSTed
>URL
>> look like. The source goes something like this:
>>
>> <FORM ACTION="search.asp" method=post target="rightframe" NAME=frmSearch>
>> <TD width=15 height=1></TD>
>> <TD><INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE=11 NAME=word></TD>
>> <TR>
>> <TD></TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search"
>> VALUE="actor" CHECKED>
>> <IMG SRC="Actor.gif"></TD>
>> </TR>
>> <TD></TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search"
>> VALUE="title">
>> <IMG SRC="title.gif"><INPUT TYPE=image
>> SRC="search.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Search"></TD>
>> </FORM>
>>
>> Of course, I tried to (naive as I am), to post an url that has the form
>data
>> like this: http://blaaah.com/search.asp?title=blaaah
>>
>> but this isn't the right one. Is there any way I can instead of performing
>> the search just see the url?
>>
>> Any info appreciated
>>
>> //Regards Stefan
>
>
