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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Kevin Hunter <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres WWW List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Problem with archives search
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:20:33 -0400
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At 3:16p -0400 on Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'd like to be able to paste a message ID into a form on my home page
> and end up at the correct URL, but the only way I know to do that
> involves <form method="get"> which insists on sticking "?fieldname="
> in there somewhere. Is there another simple way, or do we have an
> alternate portal that handles URLs of that format?
Yeah, all variables in an HTML form are put after a ? in a GET request.
You'll either have to write yourself something server side, or get some
Javascript to do it for you.
[... time passes ...]
It ain't pretty and it ain't cross-browser compatible, but it was quick.
Tested in Ubuntu, FF3. I tried to annotate it so you can personalize
it, whatevs.
Enjoy,
Kevin
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name='robots' content='noindex, nofollow' />
<meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' />
<title>Message-ID redirector for Tom Lane</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- import parts for messsage loading. -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
// Define function here for onclick event use below
function handle_message_id ( form ) {
msg_id = form.message_id.value;
msg_id = 'http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/' + msg_id;
document.location = msg_id; // Does the actual page load
}
</script>
<div>
<form method='get' action='' onsubmit='return false;'><!-- return false; so as not to use form for redirect. Don't want those pesky get variables (?message_id=...) -->
<p>
<input type='text' name='message_id' value=''/>
<button onclick='handle_message_id(this.form);'>Go to Message</button>
</p>
</form>
</div>
<!-- end: import parts for messsage loading. -->
</body>
</html>
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