Form GET no parameter name

Question

<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="../cgi-bin/mycgi.pl">
<INPUT NAME="town"><BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT>
</FORM>

Will redirect us to ../cgi-bin/mycgi.pl?town=example

but I want to redirect to ../cgi-bin/mycgi.pl?example

It means, remove the parameter name in the URI?

I try to google, but found nothing like this.

Thanks in advance.

This will not work. See RFC1866, chapter 8.2.4..

Uwe Keim
– Uwe Keim

2011-05-28 12:07:37 +00:00
Commented May 28, 2011 at 12:07 — Uwe Keim
– Uwe Keim, Commented May 28, 2011 at 12:07

koressak · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-28 12:06:36Z

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No, you cannot remove the parameter name in standard GET request. Its a common way, how http request are made. All parameters must have a name and therefore it will be a couple (name=value) for each input.

What you are trying to achieve may acomplish javascript processing of the submitted form. Which will take the input named town and redirect user to such URL.

Something like:

<script type="text/javascript">
var elem = document.getElementById("town");
window.location = "path_to_script/mycgi.pl?"+elem.value
</script>

But in html you have to specify your town as following

<input type="text" name="town" id="town" />

answered May 28, 2011 at 12:06

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Stephane Gosselin Over a year ago

+ oned for making the poster believe this horribly brittle and insecure way of handling http redirection inside a form is actually useful.

koressak Over a year ago

I was expecting a little discussion here, not marking it as solved the first time it has been seen. :) Of course this approach is very inadequate and should not be used, unless absolutely necessary. But... it works.

Stephane Gosselin · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-28 12:08:00Z

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GET will always post the variables with query string starting as ?variable=value&variable2=value2"

What you could do is have the form post to itself by removing the ACTION tag, and use method=post. Then parse $_REQUEST['POST'] and build the url you need, and redirect to the built url.

answered May 28, 2011 at 12:08

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