From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T22:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: multipart forms and cgi


"Martin Stannard" <martins@aardvark.net.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:58208.203.22.14.128.1070418884.squirrel@www.aardvark.net.au...
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting hidden fields to appear in multipart
forms
> working using cgi and mod_ruby.
>
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-10-31) [i686-linux]
> apache 2.0.40
> mod_ruby 1.1.1
>
> I'm creating a multipart form using cgi.multipart_form("sub.rhtml") {
.... }
> to generate the following html:
>
>      <FORM METHOD="post" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
ACTION="sub.rhtml">
>         <P>
>           <INPUT NAME="privacy" SIZE="40" TYPE="text">
>         </P>
>         <BR>
>         <P>
>           Main Menu Mpeg:
>           <INPUT NAME="mpeg" SIZE="" MAXLENGTH="50" TYPE="file">
>         </P>
>         <INPUT NAME="formname" TYPE="hidden" VALUE="testform">
>         <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Save">
>       </FORM>
>
>
> but when I try to retrieve the value of the field like this:
>
> cgi.params['formname'][0]
>
> there doesn't seem to be formname parameter.

Did you try cgi.params['formname'] also?  What does it return?

> This is the CGI.escape(cgi.inspect) string from the webbrowser (sorry
> about the guff - the browser wouldn't display the straight inspected
> output):
>
>
%23%3CCGI%3A0x84bc59c+%40cookies%3D%7B%7D%2C+%40output_cookies%3Dnil%2C+%4
0multipart%3Dtrue%2C+%40output_hidden%3Dnil%2C+%40params%3D%7B%22privacy%2
2%3D%3E%5B%23%3CStringIO%3A0x84bc358%3E%5D%7D%3E
>
> I can see the privacy StringIO in there but not 'formname'. Hidden
fields
> seem to work on normal forms. Any ideas?

Maybe the output is truncated.  Maybe you you didn't enter a file name
before submitting the form. ...

Kind regards

    robert