- From: Gregory J. Woodhouse <gjw@wnetc.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:44:17 -0800 (PST)
- To: Niranjan Ramakrishnan <niranjan@eecs.umich.edu>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Niranjan Ramakrishnan wrote: No. The form elements can be returned in any order. For example, alpha=one&beta=two is treated as equivalent to beta=two&alpha=one > Hi, > > Sorry to disturb you guys but I'm pretty concerned about the HTTP specs > regarding the order in which form input is returned to a cgi program. Is > it *necessary* that the form elements should always be returned in the > same order as they were present in the original HTML document? I need this > info desperately as it would dictate the parsing methodology I use when I > process input from a POST query. > > For eg if I have several input text fields say > > <input type=text name=a> > <input type=text name=a> > <input type=text name=a> > > and the user enters for each in order b c and d, will HTTP require that > the values returned to me would be of the form : > > a=b > a=c > a=d > > in that order? > > Thanks for putting up with this query? But I need the info pretty badly... > > Any help would be deeply appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Niranjan Ramakrishnan > Grad Student, > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor > --- Gregory Woodhouse gjw@wnetc.com home page: http://www.wnetc.com/ resource page: http://www.wnetc.com/resource/
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