Redirect function in form not redirecting

[Neil Kennedy]

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:-

<form method="post" action="mailto:email address (removed)>

and at the bottom I have
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="redirectfile.html">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">

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

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

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:-

<form method="post" action="mailto:email address (removed)>

That in itself is fraught with danger - the biggest one being the user
has to have an email client to send the form data.

and at the bottom I have
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="redirectfile.html">

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

<input type="reset" value="Reset">

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:
<form method="post" action="myformhandinglingscript.asp">

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

 

[Neil Kennedy]

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

 

[Sherm Pendley]

Upside-down. Please don't do that.

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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?

sherm--

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
<[email protected]> writing in


Top posting fixed... don't that again

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.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

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.

 

[Neredbojias]

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

Don't forget, if it wasn't for us parasites, Earth would have lost The War
of the Worlds!