CGI style -- alternatives to HIDDEN parms?

[Keary Suska]

FYI, according to specification, a <TEXTAREA> field must convert all line
breaks (as defined by the client OS) into CRLF pairs when submitting. I
guess this was to preserve a cross-platform notion of line breaks.

One of those CGI gotchas....

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

> From: "Tim Chambers" <tbchambers at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:04:01 -0600
> To: "Pikes Peak Perl Mongers" <pikes-peak-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
> Subject: Re: CGI style -- alternatives to HIDDEN parms?
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I went with the MD5 in a hidden field.
> Elegant. Looks like my browser client (IE5 on a PC) is sending ^M at end of
> lines. Once I stripped them, MD5 worked great, though. Just a few extra
> lines of code.
> 
> <>< Tim
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