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How to Support Multi-homing and Incompatible Web Browsers
Some web browsers do not send the "referer" information to the web server.
FormSaver relies on this information to see which form the data is associated
with. AOL's web browser (licensed from InterCon) and IBM's OS/2 Web browser
have this problem. In order to support the users of these web browsers, a
new field was created called "workaround" that allows you to name the form.
As of 1.7.2, if this field is used, the refer field sent by the web browser
is ignored. Also note that FormSaver does not check that this information
is correct, there is no way for it to know. So, for example, if you put the
wrong form name in your form, the data will be saved in the wrong data file.
Multi-homing software for the Macintosh modifies the referer field, so FormSaver
can't find the files. The workaround field will now work for multihoming software
as well (Requires 1.7.2).
This field is optional, although it is required if you want to support these
browsers or multihoming.
If the form indicated does not actually exist, an error will be reported. No data will be saved.
Here is the tag you need to add to your HTML file. It must come after the <FORM ...>
tag, and before the </FORM> tag.
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="workaround" VALUE="directory/filename.html">
Replace "directory/filename.html" with the path and file name of the HTML file.
It is relative to the WebStar directory. So if you have a folder called "forms" in
the WebStar directory, and an HTML file called "registry.html", then you would use:
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="workaround" VALUE="forms/registry.html">
The file path can be delimited with colons or slashes. (':' or '/').
It may be preceded by a '/' but this is not necessary.
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