[thelist] capturing text from a field

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>From memory, formmail has a redirect option - once it's
finished processing, it just redirects the user to a specified
URL.

Cheers
Martin





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One way this could be possible i guess is thru using a confirmation
page... the "this has been mailed..." page that is modified to
redirect to the "welcome, member" page...

...not quite sure howyou'd do it tho. heh

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From: "Jason E. Burk" <jasonb at halstead-architects.com>
To: "the|LIST" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 6:18 PM
Subject: [thelist] capturing text from a field


> would it be possible to write a script that could parse the
information
> from a username and password field and either save it to a file or
email
> it to myself?
>
> basically the concept is:  could a submit button take you one place
(say
> after you typed in your username and password) but also in the same
> motion while calling up the onSubmit javascript function, send the
> information in the 2 fields to my email through formmail or
something to
> that effect?
>
> would the password, which gets input on the screen as ********** be
> parsed as well or would  it still be hidden?
>
> preliminarily i think this may be the beginning of a huge security
reach
> on some websites.



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