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
