Posted by hywel.jenkins on 10/06/01 11:42

firstcustomer@gmail.com wrote:
> hywel.jenkins@gmail.com wrote:
> > firstcustomer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
> > > The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:
> > >
> > > www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html
> > >
> > > Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
> > > box.
> > >
> > > How wuold I go about doing this?
> >
> > Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
> > would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send the
> > appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.
> >
>
> Nvm Hywel, got it cracked now, fyi this is how I've done it with no SSI
> at all.
>
> A colleague as done it as a VB script.

Server-side, I suppose? Or is this for a closed user group?

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Hywel

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