Re: Mailto: Forms

Actually if you're still using MAtts then you have a security breach and your 
system can eb compromised by spammers.  unless Mat has done the update that NMS 
did to his scripts.

If you want a better version of MAtts, then go to NMS
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

These guys beefed up the script to weed out some potential exploits.  Actually 
the Hosting service I resell had deisabled all the standard Matts scripts and 
had us rollout the NMS version a year or so ago.

Just a thought.



Quoting Gary Krockover <gary(at)garykrockover.com>:

> Hi Frances,
> 
> In the original "Matt's formmail", the redirect to the thank you page would
> 
> come with a hidden input in the form, such as (full url!):
> 
> <input name=redirect type=hidden 
> value="http://www.yourdomain.com/thankyou.html">
> 
> In fact, the script would balk and throw an error if that page was missing 
> instead of just showing a 404 error.
> 
> So, the action of the form is to the script with the full URL, such as:
> <form action="http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi_bin/formmail.cgi"
> method="POST">
> 
> That redirect is then passed to the script and the script uses it to 
> forward the visitor to that page after the form is processed.  No need for 
> javascript and fancy onsubmit's.
> 
> There's no problem processing that form on another server as long as the 
> server with the script is set to expect the form from the other 
> server.  That is set in the script itself.  I have the syntax for the old 
> Matt's formmail, I'd have to see your version to tell you exactly what to 
> enter/change.
> 
> HTH,
> GK
> 
> At 09:09 PM 6/25/2004, Frances Castelli wrote:
> >Dear Techies,
> >
> >I'm looking for a way to add a redirect to a mailto: form.
> 
> 


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