Posted by Louise Balmforth on 06/14/05 05:07

> I'm afraid I'm not an expert either, but if all you need to do is pass
> a query string, you can probably do that with regular forms. In lieu
> of me making more guesses, here's the relevant section from the HTML
> 4.01 spec:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/dz3x2
>

I assume this is the answer to the first part of the answer to the origional
post, this would encode the query string and pass it on to via the url.

The problem as I see it is retreiving this information from the url in the
browser window it opens. For my requirements I do not need to use forms at
all, I want to manually append a query string to a url and extract that
information from the url and pass it on to a flash movie.

In essense, what I want to do is use a url such as
www.bratpack.org.uk/myflashmovie.html?john_doe and in the resulting page the
flash movie uses the john_doe to greet the viewer personally.

Obviousely on the server side this would be reletavely easy with a cgi
script, but alas my shite ISP's free webspace offers me no such luxury. This
is where the javascript link comes into the equation, it appears to me this
would allow me to extract the query string from the url and pass it on to
the flash movie within the page. If this is true, then surely it would also
be possible for the origional post's author to use the same technique?
combined with the form data info you provided.

I will switch to Louise mode as I noticed from last post my news settings
are set up with that :))

Louise
www.bratpack.org.uk

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