Re: FLASH: Flash4 and forms

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Brian,


First I'll explain what's happening and why it's not working.


You are using .../formh.pl?recipient=brian... as your target url and you

are also requesting that Flash send variables using the GET method.

Further the submit button is on the main timeline.


The GET method sends data back to the server by appending the url with a

string that starts with a question mark then includes the data as name

value pairs. Each pair is separated by & and name and value is separated

by =. Some characters in the ASCII set are also converted to their hex

representation.


Now when the movie finds that you want to send variables using GET it

takes the URL you gave it and appends the variables to it. This is

what's causing the error because you've pre appended a variable already

so the URL is sent with two starting points as indicated by two question

marks.


The correct way to implement what you are trying is to declare

recipient=brian... as a variable in your Flash movie and not by placing

it appended to the URL. So you only have to remove that part from the

Get URL call and add a set variable action.


If instead of setting send vars with GET you had set it to send vars

using POST you would never have noticed the error, as in this case the

recipient var would be sent using GET and all others would be sent using

POST, this is not however a recommended practice.


Nigel


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