javascript submit button

[arpita]

hi all...
is there a way to call a backend application on the onclick event of a
submit button?....
thank you....

[kaeli]

Re: javascript submit button

In article <52d58317.03121 90224.1dbe735b@ posting.google. com>,
arpitabahuguna@ yahoo.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> hi all...
> is there a way to call a backend application on the onclick event of a
> submit button?....
> thank you....
>[/color]

In .NET, yeah, with postback, but I don't know about other
appplications. Mostly client-side script is limited to the client, so
you'd either have to open a new window and call a cgi or server-side
script or use ActiveX or COM.

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[arpita bahuguna]

Re: javascript submit button

hey....
thanx a lot for the reply...
but i basically didnt want it in .net....
but anyways i have found the solution to my problem....
basically i had to call a backend cgi program and pass some parameters
to it too....
so on the onclick event of the button i had to call another javascript
function first that would assign values to hidden input types, which
would then be passed onto the other cgi program...
thanx a lot anyways...



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[Grant Wagner]

Re: javascript submit button

arpita wrote:
[color=blue]
> hi all...
> is there a way to call a backend application on the onclick event of a
> submit button?....
> thank you....[/color]

If client-side scripting is enabled, and the DOM of the UA supports the
Image() object, sure:

<input type="button" onclick="(new Image()).src =
'/cgi-bin/something.cgi'; ">

something.cgi would start the process on the server.

Note that while you could obtain information about what happened when
something.cgi ran, it's a bit tricky and involves something.cgi actually
returning content of type image/gif with valid content.

If you absolutely need to know what happened, and can live with IE and
Mozilla support only, you could use the HTTPRequest object to fire off
something.cgi: <url: http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html />

Lastly, you can actually do the same sort of thing without client-side
JavaScript enabled at all:

<form method="get" action="/cgi-bin/something.cgi">
<input type="submit" value="Click here to run something.cgi">
</form>

In all examples, something.cgi is something the server can execute to
start your process (it could be C, Perl, PHP, server-side JavaScript, ASP,
JSP, ColdFusion, etc) As long as it can get to the underlying OS on the
Web server to request that something be started either there, or on
another host (using remsh for example), it will work.

Be aware of security concerns, with all examples, anyone who knew
/cgi-bin/something.cgi existed on your server, and it wasn't protected in
any way, could fire it automatically and repeatedly, perhaps having fatal
consequences for your server.

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