Re: Re: Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl


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Re: Re: Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl

by dws (Chancellor)

on Jul 07, 2002 at 00:30 UTC ( #179903=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Should read:
win=window.open("cgibin/getPrice.pl?textBox='+text+' ","width=250,height=240")

Nope. Not unless the CGI expects the string to arrive with single quotes around it. I suspect that the right thing to do here is to URL-encode 'textBox', via

win=window.open("cgibin/getPrice.pl?textBox=" + escape(text),
                "width=250,height=240")
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Re: Re: Re: Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl by TexasTess (Beadle) on Jul 07, 2002 at 00:52 UTC
I've just written some code almost exactly like this..but it's at work and I'm at home..and my brain is fried so can't remember the EXACT syntax I used however.... I've found that when trying to use quotes inside a quoted string the CGI converts the ' nicely...but leave the " in and it screws it up...ALSO shouldn't there be a "+" on either side of the variable? Texas Tess	[reply]

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