I'm doing some troubleshooting for someones website, they have an order form that isnt redirecting the user to another page after the form is submitted, they're getting a
"The requested URL /pubs/mains/publishingCONF.html was not found on
this server."
error when they form attempts to redirect.
Heres the redirect code, just wondering if its valid to use "value" as the redirect?
<input name="redirect" type="hidden" value="../pubs/mains/publishingCONF.html" />
"formrp.html" is the file with the above code snippet, located in'books'
"publishingCONF.html" is the redirect, located in 'pubs/main'
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Can someone please tell me what happens behind the scenes in the following case (i.e. explain the whole technical process)?
<form method="get" action="#">
<input type="text" name="d" value="flowers">
<button type="submit">send</button>
</form>
In this case after one has clicks on “send” a new webpage opens saying: "You have searched for "flowers" " and an image of some flowers below.
In the browser tab right after the URL of the newly opened page there is
“/?s=flowers”. What is that?
Thank you in advance for your answers!
When you click Send, the page data specified in the form information and values is passed to the server via HTTP.
The /?s=flowers is the GET data being passed back to the server. Although, based on the form code you've provided, the "name" of that value is d. So the URL would actually have /?d=flowers
The PHP or server side language then handles that information to do specific tasks. It can access the info using the name "d". This method of sending data is called GET, there are also other ways of doing this. The most common, POST, does not display the data in the URL and send the data through HTTP headers.
The code you've shown has an action of "#" which means the HTTP method is being sent the same page. Meaning this page code would have some PHP located in it. This can also be done by using a seperate file, such as action='send.php'
I am posting modal data to a back end using HTML post and action attr. The form post fine and updates the backend as well the only thing is after pressing submit the url changes and takes me to my POST url. How can this be stopped? I want to stay on the same page after clicking submit and just have the backend update without being taken to my POST url.
<form method="POST"id="goForm"action="http://post_endpoint"enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
Name: <input type="text" value="">
<button type="submit value="submit">Send<button>
</form>
To submit an HTML form without reloading the page, you have to use Javascript.
Here is a similar question with answers: Submit form without page reloading
According to the HTML book which I am reading (and according to here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_action.asp) it says that in the case of forms:
<form action="/login/" method="post">
'action' specifies where to send the form data when a form is submitted. The syntax for it could be
<form action="URL">
Now, in the book I am reading, it also talks about a hidden 'next' variable, like so:
<form action="/login/" method="post">
<input type='hidden' name='next' value='/' />
<input type='submit' value='login' />
The book I am reading states that
The form contains a submit button as well as a hidden field called 'next'. This hidden variable contains a URL that tells where to redirect the user after they have logged in.
From my understanding, doesn't 'action' either way tell specify where to redirect to after the form has been submitted? So isn't having the hidden 'next' variable not necessary because 'action' already tells where to redirect to? Which takes priority if action and next are different URLs? Does it redirect to the URL in action or the URL in next?
First up the action attribute has nothing to do with redirection.
When you click a submit button in a form the browser sends an HTTP request to the server, specificaly to the resource mentioned in the action attribute, using either get or post. What happens next is entirely dependant on what you are using server side.
As far as I am aware the presense of a Next property in the request has no special meaning.
Normally when a form is submitted one of two things will happen
The server does some process then return an HTTP Response. This will show the action url in the address bar of the browser
The server does some processing then redirects the user to a new page. This is usualy programmed by you the programmer and does not happen automagicaly. In php you would use http_redirect(someURL). The next hidden field could be used to hold this URL but it won't do anything with it by itself.
On a technical note, http redirects, be they with asp, php, etc cause, an additional round trip to the browser. So in the case of the redirect above, an HTTP Response is send to the broswser with a header indicating to redirect and where to direct to. The browser will then send a new request to the new location. This is why the new address appears in the browser address bar.
Action url is where the page will be redirected to, by default. The value of next has no effect unless you have server side code to do that. Even if you do write code, the redirect will first go to action url and then to any other url you have changed.
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 am sending a form post to a third party and it is returning a page with Success if the action is done. Once I get the success page, I need to redirect user to a Thank You page. Can somebody tell me how the see if the success page is returned and redirect to another page?
<form name="abc" method="POST" action="third party url" >
<input />
<input />
</form>
... how about submitting the form and receiving response in an iframe? If you can use an iframe you'll be able to detect the change then.
the code goes like this:
<form name="abc" method="POST" action="third party url" >
<input/>
<input/>
</form>
but i am not sure how to capture the response
You won't be able to do this easily with plain javascript. When you post a form, the form inputs are sent to the server and your page is refreshed - the data is handled on the server side. That is, the submit() function doesn't actually return anything, it just sends the form data to the server.
If you really wanted to get the response in Javascript (without the page refreshing), then you'll need to use AJAX, and when you start talking about using AJAX, you'll need to use a library. jQuery is by far the most popular, and my personal favourite. There's a great plugin for jQuery called Form which will do exactly what it sounds like you want.