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BBS: Re: Passing CGI variables to other pages - September 15, 1998 at 10:04:14

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Posted by Martin Webb on September 15, 1998 at 10:04:14:

In Reply to: Re: Passing CGI variables to other pages posted by Jason Nugent on September 15, 1998 at 07:44:57:

: Yes, this can be done.

: Oh... sorry.. you wanted to know how :)

And Jason gives a excellent explanation of how to do this on the server side in the cgi script.

However, not everyone has access to the cgi script : (

In which case you can do it client side with JavaScript.

Take a normal link:

<A HREF="http://www.irt.org">Cool Site</A>

Now to capture the search string passed and tack it onto the link:

<A HREF="http://www.irt.org/index.htm" onClick="this.href=this.href+location.search">Cool Site</A>

However, if the user clicks the link then cancels the fetching of the page and then clicks it again we end up with a corrupt url, therefore best to use:

<A HREF="http://www.irt.org/index.htm" onClick="this.href='http://www.irt.org/index.htm'+location.search">Cool Site</A>

Now the questions is: Did you require a server side or client side solution :)
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