submit form via URL [resolved]

[Rh0ads]

hi,

how would i submit a form on a webpage by passing its arguments in the url

ex:
i want the "Name" to be "Bob" and "Site" to be "blah". i've tried navigating to "http://www.blah.com/script.pl?Name=Bob&Site=blah" but it doesn't submit the form, any ideas on how to make this work?

Thanks
-George

[JoshT]

That only works if the CGI script is looking for the variables to be submitted as GET. You want to do a POST submit, which doesn't involve the URL. The variables are sent in POST as a data "body" after the HTTP headers, kind of the reverese process of getting a web page. The CGI script receives this as standard input.