I have registration and login form on same page and both of them are sent via POST request. How can i distinguish them in my post request handler function so that server responds accordingly. Is the element that sent request included in request body?
You need to include some sort of metadata with the request to indicate which operation is sending the information.
This could be a hidden field or just an additional bit of JSON added on the client side:
<input type="hidden" id="formID" name="formID" value="login">
<input type="hidden" id="formID" name="formID" value="registration">
Another option would be to set up different targets on your server (i.e. different paths) that each form submits to separately.
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I am trying to use an HTML form to execute a post request. I know that in general AJAX is probably a better way to go about this, but my use case is very simple and I have to upload a file in this form submission (which is really easy just using HTML forms). Anyways, everything works, but for some reason my browser is downloading the contents of my POST request response, which I do not want to happen. I want nothing to actually occur when I submit the post request other than the post request being sent out.
Here is the HTML portion of my code:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/action" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000"/>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email">
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" accept="image/*">
<input type="submit">
</form>
I am not sure that it is relevant, but I am using a Flask webserver and here is the response I am returning:
response = {"status": 200}
return Response(json.dumps(response), mimetype='applications/json')
The issue is that I keep having files downloaded from my browser with '{"status": 200}' in them.
Status : 200 indicates.
The request has succeeded.
So an OK status response is sent to the location, /action as you have mentioned in action="/action". So I'm guessing this is the view you wanted to send the POST request too.
I don't have the code for your /action view, but either :
This is not the view you intended to send it too.
It is the view you intended to send it too.
So if its not the correct view, what you can do is, use jinja templating and mention your view like this.
<form method="POST" action="{{url_for('xyz')}}">
Notice how I use the url_for() in jinja templating to specify route.
And if its the correct view, i can answer the question by seeing your code for the view called action.
Most likely what could be wrong though is,
your return function is erroneous. Check the return function again.
I am trying to make a code that will automatically login into a webpage for you, but I am having trouble finding the url variables for the submission.
How can I find the url variables to submit the login?
i.e.
https://login.fidelity.com/ftgw/Fas/Fidelity/RtlCust/Login/Init
When I submit my username and password on the site, it passes it through to
https://login.fidelity.com/ftgw/Fas/Fidelity/RtlCust/Login/Response
The username <input> has id="userId", and the password <input> has id="password", and this is all under a <form> which has method="POST"
How can I find all variables that I need to submit?
The URL variables aren't always in the URL.
Most Login forms use a method of transferring that data called "POST".
In which the URL data cannot be seen by the user.
You can try using http://www.wireshark.org/ or http://www.charlesproxy.com/ to view the data sent and received by your web browser.
To find the name of the URL parameters (such as ?username=....&pas=...).
You can look into the HTML of the page. Look for something like so:
<form action="login.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="username" value="User Types Username Here">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Can use Chrome (Ctrl + Shift + J) Network tools. Click "Preserve Log" to ensure you capture payload before page refreshes.
I have a form that reads
<form action="Send.asp" method="POST" name="Order" id="Order">
in my send a quote page. The submit button reads as follows:
<input name="B1" type="submit" class="style80" value="Submit">
Now when I click on the button, it only redirects to the home page. I would like it to go to the .asp file called Send.asp
That .asp file has the sending methods: connect to SMTP server and compile an email form the input boxes on the request page.
Why is my email not sending? What am I missing from the form tag?
Your input type=submit seems correct. Is the Send.Asp page in the same directory than the html file ?. Maybe you have to use other relative route.
Are you debugging Send.asp file to check if it is being called?.
That could be a start.
Try changing aswell the Send.Asp with full url to discard that the url is not valid.
form action="http://yoururl/yourproject/Send.asp" method="POST" name="Order" id="Order">
I tried w3schools but it didn't help and I tried other websites too. I just wanna make a short html script that sends an email to an email address, but I keep reloading my email inbox and nothing comes up. Can you help?
<form action="MAILTO:MY_EMAIL#yahoo.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<input type="text" name="email" value="Email">
<input type="text" name="message" value="Message">
<input value="Submit" type="submit">
</form>
You need to use a server side script here. HTML alone won't help you here. HTML is just the frontend logic. You need some script on backend that accepts this data you submit and actually sends out an email. To take the example in PHP, assuming u have the server set up and all or that your shared
<form action="sendmail.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<input type="text" name="email" value="Email">
<input type="text" name="message" value="Message">
<input value="Submit" type="submit">
</form>
sendmail.php
$email=$_POST['email'];
$message=json_encode($_POST);
$receiver="MY_EMAIL#yahoo.com";
$mailer="mailer#myservice.com";
mail($email,"Message for enquiry or whatever",$message, array("from"=>$mailer));
There were, at some point, browsers that supported forms of this type. However, they're all gone now -- you will need a server-side script to send email. It's impossible to do using HTML alone.
You are confusing a few things.
When you Submit a form, it goes from the client (browser) to your server, which acts upon it. The form action needs to be a URL which handles the request. The mailto: URI scheme is not a valid action to use.
You have two choices:
You can create a mailto: link like this:
Send email
which will open your default email client,
OR
You can put a URL corresponding to an end point on your server, something like
form action="/send/mail"...
and have your server send the email
I believe the easiest way to do this is using a service like Zapier or IFTTT. Both of them offer a way to create Zaps/Applets that can send an email when you post to a specific url.
This is what configuration would look like in IFTTT and Zapier .
IFTTT is simpler to setup, Zapier has more options, like sending to more than one emails. I believe IFTTT only lets you send to your account's email.
I am trying to make a form in html that uses the value you enter to form the destination URL.
<form action="../search/${params.q}" method="post" id="q">
Busqueda: <input type="text" name="q" /><br />
</form>
This is what i am doing, but it does not work, any cluess? thanks!
You'd need to handle this using a script - either server-side or on the client (JavaScript).
HTML alone can't handle parameters in the way you're using them.
So you'd need to either POST the form (as you're already doing) and handle the postback by redirecting your request to the new address, or use JavaScript to capture the field's value when a submit button is clicked and loading the new address in the browser window.
I'd suggest server-side is the best option as JavaScript might be disabled or unavailable.