A hopefully simple form problem

by "Rajnish Bhaskar" <9705228b(at)student.gla.ac.uk>

 Date:  Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:43:39 -0000
 To:  hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
 Cc:  rebecca(at)monsterweb.org
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Hi Rebecca

> The problem is that I've been asked to make it so that the guest can 
> select an item from a list [using radio buttons] and would be sent to a
> different URL based off of the selection. This is being done internally on
> an intranet and everyone uses IE5.0, so supporting other browsers is not
> necessary in this case.

Although I'm not familiar with CGI, a simple Java servlet would do the job, 
if your server supports them.  What you would do is have the 
radiobuttons each with a different value (probably numeric), and point the 
form to a servlet.  In the servlet, all you would do is retrieve the value from 
the form, run it through a case {} statement, and redirect off to the 
required location.

If you need more details (or, indeed, a sample servlet), don't hesitate to 
email me.

Raj.
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