Redirect function in form not redirecting

Hi all

Now I have done this before many moons ago, but just cannot, no matter how
much I tinker, get a form to redirect when sent.

I have the following, set in a multi column / multi row table:-

Re: Redirect function in form not redirecting

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
writing in
news:Zp-dnZCgs-NFFBPbnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@bt.com:

> Hi all
>
> Now I have done this before many moons ago, but just cannot, no matter
> how much I tinker, get a form to redirect when sent.
>
> I have the following, set in a multi column / multi row table:-
>
>
>

Okay, so your action is mailto - mailto does not know anything about
redirection. Server side scripts know how to redirect.

>

Personally, I find those useless if not annoying.

>
> Any idea which bit I may have missed to prevent the form from snding
> to my email (which it does) and then redirecting to another page
> (which it doesn't!).

Yes, you need a server side form handling script, eg:


If you are writing the script, you probably don't need to use the
redirect hidden input element. This that I've seen in third party form
processing scripts, like http://www.response-o-matic.com/ .

>
> Cheers in advance for the help folks
>

HTH

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Re: Redirect function in form not redirecting

Ta for the reply.

I am hoping to avoid using scripting, purely and simply because I haven't
got a clue what I am doing with it! I did set up a simple form on a (very)
simple page years ago, which didn't use any scripting, and was hoping to
head off down that path again. Is there any way round this?

With regards to the users having mail clients - the form is on a site that
is going to be used by specific people, and I know they all have mail
clients. As for the Reset button - trust me, it'll be needed :)

Thanks again

Neil


"Adrienne Boswell" wrote in message
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> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
> writing in
> news:Zp-dnZCgs-NFFBPbnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@bt.com:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Now I have done this before many moons ago, but just cannot, no matter
>> how much I tinker, get a form to redirect when sent.
>>
>> I have the following, set in a multi column / multi row table:-
>>
>>
>>
>
> Okay, so your action is mailto - mailto does not know anything about
> redirection. Server side scripts know how to redirect.
>
>>
>
> Personally, I find those useless if not annoying.
>
>>
>> Any idea which bit I may have missed to prevent the form from snding
>> to my email (which it does) and then redirecting to another page
>> (which it doesn't!).
>
> Yes, you need a server side form handling script, eg:
>
>
> If you are writing the script, you probably don't need to use the
> redirect hidden input element. This that I've seen in third party form
> processing scripts, like http://www.response-o-matic.com/ .
>
>>
>> Cheers in advance for the help folks
>>
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Adrienne Boswell at Home
> Arbpen Web Site Design Services
> http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
> Please respond to the group so others can share
>

Re: Redirect function in form not redirecting

"Neil Kennedy" writes:

Upside-down. Please don't do that.

> "Adrienne Boswell" wrote in message
> news:Xns9965782789753arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121...
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
>> writing in
>> news:Zp-dnZCgs-NFFBPbnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@bt.com:

....

>>> and at the bottom I have
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Okay, so your action is mailto - mailto does not know anything about
>> redirection. Server side scripts know how to redirect.
>
> I am hoping to avoid using scripting, purely and simply because I haven't
> got a clue what I am doing with it! I did set up a simple form on a (very)
> simple page years ago, which didn't use any scripting, and was hoping to
> head off down that path again. Is there any way round this?

No, there's not - and if you think redirecting from a mailto: was what you
were doing years ago, you're misremembering things, because that has *never*
worked.

Think about it - a redirect is an HTTP response from a web server. A mailto:
URL is simply handed off to the email client. How do you expect the browser
to get a response from a web server, when it never connects to one?

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Re: Redirect function in form not redirecting

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
writing in
news:J6adnbCqfMrBDRPbnZ2dnUVZ8s6gnZ2d@bt.com:

Top posting fixed... don't that again

>
> "Adrienne Boswell" wrote in message
> news:Xns9965782789753arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121...
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
>> writing in
>> news:Zp-dnZCgs-NFFBPbnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@bt.com:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Now I have done this before many moons ago, but just cannot, no
>>> matter how much I tinker, get a form to redirect when sent.
>>>
>>> I have the following, set in a multi column / multi row table:-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Okay, so your action is mailto - mailto does not know anything about
>> redirection. Server side scripts know how to redirect.
>>
>>>
>>
>> Personally, I find those useless if not annoying.
>>
>>>
>>> Any idea which bit I may have missed to prevent the form from snding
>>> to my email (which it does) and then redirecting to another page
>>> (which it doesn't!).
>>
>> Yes, you need a server side form handling script, eg:
>>
>>
>> If you are writing the script, you probably don't need to use the
>> redirect hidden input element. This that I've seen in third party
>> form processing scripts, like http://www.response-o-matic.com/ .
>>
>> HTH
>>
> Ta for the reply.
>
> I am hoping to avoid using scripting, purely and simply because I
> haven't got a clue what I am doing with it! I did set up a simple form
> on a (very) simple page years ago, which didn't use any scripting, and
> was hoping to head off down that path again. Is there any way round
> this?

You probably used a third party application, maybe even Response-o-Matic,
as noted above. Plain HTML has no way of doing what you need to do, nor
do email clients.

>
> With regards to the users having mail clients - the form is on a site
> that is going to be used by specific people, and I know they all have
> mail clients.

And if that person is at a library, Internet cafe, someone else's
computer? Doesn't want the email application to pop-up, or doesn't
understand what's going on? Beleive me, this is not a good thing to do.


> As for the Reset button - trust me, it'll be needed :)

One of the terrible things about reset buttons is they reset EVERYTHING.
Nothing more annoying than filling out a form, hitting the reset button
by accident, and having to fill the darned thing in all over again.


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Re: Redirect function in form not redirecting

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Adrienne Boswell
writing in news:Xns996590F646F06arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121:

> Nothing more annoying than filling out a form, hitting the reset button
> by accident, and having to fill the darned thing in all over again.
>
>

Okay - One thing more annoying - having a server side script come back with
a warning that something is missing but does not have what I previously
filled in avaiable.

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Re: Redirect function in form not redirecting

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:28:38 GMT Neil Kennedy scribed:

> Any idea which bit I may have missed to prevent the form from snding
> to my email (which it does) and then redirecting to another page
> (which it doesn't!).
>
> Cheers in advance for the help folks
>
> Neil

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