From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T10:56:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-specific CGI question (I think)

* Tim Hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx> [0753 01:53]:
> Kurt M. Dresner graced us by uttering:
> > I'm using sessions and forms in my cgi script.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, for some reason, cgi.form seems to be putting
> > some funny stuff at the end of each form I make.  (I have
> > multiple forms on the page, and it puts it on every one.)  The
> > funny stuff looks like this:
> > 
> > <fieldset><input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="sessionname"
> > VALUE="session_id"></fieldset>
> > 
> > First of all: Why is it doing this?
> 
> Session management.  Session information has to be passed somehow
> to mask the inherent statelessness of the CGI protocol.

Bless you, you have saved my sanity. I *knew* it had to be sending it 
somehow, but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working and just realised I'm
not using cgi.rb to write the form (I'm using eruby instead).

 
> > Second of all: How do I make it stop?

My forms look like 

<form METHOD="get"
ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
ACTION="/lab/modruby/mem.rhtml">
<input NAME="key" SIZE="40" TYPE="text">
<input NAME="value" SIZE="40" TYPE="text">
<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="add">
<input TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="seshtest" VALUE="202a508fb413f139">
</form> 

- that was generated by :

   <%= cgi.form(method="get") {
      cgi.text_field("key") +
      cgi.text_field("value") +
      cgi.submit("add")
      }
   %>

what does your ruby code look like ? Are you doing something funky?


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