On Thursday, June 7, 2001, at 12:46 AM, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>
> It's been asked by dozens of people over the past couple of years.
> There is one person actively working on it (Ben Chess), and it will
> require
> some "interesting" changes in the way the conduit and parsers work
> (i.e. you
> have to pull the form values from the Palm database, reverse-engineer
> that
> back into a URL (what if you used --no-urlinfo?) and then POST to the
> original
> website you retrieved them from wait for a response, get response, then
> create
> a (COMPLETELY NEW) database with the form response page, and sync that
> to the
> device. Not as easy as it seems, but definately doable. It will take a
> few
> changes to the way we build and store PDBs for Plucker, but it's
> possible.
The last part of this, turning the POST response page back into a
Plucker database becomes logistically very bizarre. What if the user
wants to fill out the form again? What if the form data changes with
each post? Personally, the AvantGo way makes sense to me. Fill out the
form, warn the user the post won't be made until next sync, then go on
with life. It makes feedback forms useful. Not many other uses for
forms make sense for offline web viewing. Other ideas are welcome...
Ben
