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Posting form to HTTP_REFERER code showing in actual page, how to stop it?

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Apr 16.2007

Hi i need to have a form that posts info to the referring page. So i thought it would be easiest to use SSI Command <!–#echo var=”HTTP_REFERER”–> but of course when you put it inside the post attribute you get some of the HTML Code ending up showing on your page then bit after <!–#echo var=”HTTP_REFERER”–>, you see –> onsubmit and stuff.

Any ideas how to stop that?

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@ray326Apr 17.2007 — action="#"
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@danpoultonauthorApr 17.2007 — Obviously i am putting the the page to post to in the action attribute of the form tag.

But when i put the SSI command HTTPREFER inside it i get the end of the SSI command '-->' and the end of the form tag 'more attributes>' spilling out into the content

so i have this

content start

form starts here --> onsubmit="dosomething">

then the rest of my form that doesn't work.

In other words i can see my html code on my page in a normal view in IE or FF.

Anyone know how to stop that?
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@ray326Apr 18.2007 — I'm still not clear exactly what you've got in the form tag but maybe you need to use single quotes, e.g.

<form action='<!--#echo var="HTTP_REFERER"-->' onsubmit="..." ... >

Or maybe it's a limitation of the SSI syntax.
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