Posted by Harlan Messinger on 01/13/08 08:03

araminska wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:44:47 +0000, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed araminska <none@nowhere.com>
>> writing in news:13oi5qscp6rucfd@corp.supernews.com:
>>
>>> An example link is <a href="subpage.pl">Info</a> and obviously calls a
>>> perl script with no options. I would like to call that same script
>>> from a list of links but with some different value that the script
>>> would be able to use to bring up the proper info.
>> <a href="subpage.pl?q=value">Info</a> then have your script look at the
>> querystring.
>>
>
> Thanks much. Worked great. Althought, interestingly enough, now that I
> know how to do it, I STILL can't find the answer in either of my HTML
> books.

It isn't an HTML feature, it's a feature of the server-side process
(Perl or whatever).

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