form email to RevCGI

HyperChris at aol.com HyperChris at aol.com
Thu Aug 3 16:32:05 EDT 2006


Sometimes i buy things online and receive a survey form in my email to rate 
the seller. The forms usually have some graphics, text, radio buttons, a text 
box (for comments) and a submit button. The idea being that you can do the 
response right there in the email program and click Submit to send off the 
response. You are then sent to a thank you web page.

These are, of course, HTML emails and upon closer examination, they use the 
"GET" method to call a PHP script at the server. (form 
action="http://www.pricegrabber.com/html_user_sales_rate.php" method="get")

I want to do this with my Rev CGI, so i setup a script that just returns the 
form parameters. I test it out first as a stand alone web page and it works 
great. Next, I use ShaoSean's libSMTP and libEmailEncode252 to attach the HTML 
form to an email. I get the HTML based email which looks fine and I fill in all 
the stuff and hit Submit.

I go to the web page and i get my static response but none of the info i 
supplied to the form. I have the script write out the variables it receives and 
they are empty. It is as though the revCGI is being called but can't access the 
data, or is not being given the data, that was passed when making the form 
submission.

Again, this works fine if use the HTML as a web page. It only goes blank when 
i do it via email??? Are there some limitations here that I do not know? 
Thanks for your thoughts!

Chris



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