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Re: [MacPerl] Hidden (or secure) Form to MacPerl script



At 3:21 PM -0800 2/5/1999, Steve Kelsch wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a form with name and password fields, and it submits to a MacPerl
>script for verification. Works fine- all is dandy. However, you can read
>the name and password in the browser location, as:
>
>http://www.xoxo.com/cgi-bin/xoxo.cgi?name=xoxo&password=xoxo
>
>I tried using the form encryption, but couldn't get it to work. Anyone
>know how to hide the parameters on form submition?

Yep.  Use
	<form method=POST ...>
as your form tag, and the paramters won't show up in the query string.

Hope this helps,
Eric

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Eric Albert                     ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~ejalbert/

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