Two different actions for HTML form submit

Question

I'm trying to write an HTML file that does the following: It takes one set of form fields with a common name, and submits them to a file "delete.py", and then it takes a different set of form fields and submits those values to a "test.pl" file. This all happens when I hit the submit button. I don't want to to be redirected to the "delete.py" page, but I do want to be redirected to the "test.pl" page on submit.

Is this possible? How can I do this?

If this is too complicated, what I was thinking was making the delete.py into an intermediate redirection page, that carries forth the post values meant to be sent to the test.pl page. I wouldn't know how to redirect the post values though, so If someone thinks that this works out better, I would appreciate knowing how to redirect the post values.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can either:

Submit to an iframe , using the target attribute of the form.

...or you can submit using AJAX.

Answer 2

You could have delete.py execute some code and then do a header redirect to test.pl as long as your delete.py doesn't write anything out to the page.

Here is how to do the header redirect:

Status: 302 Temporarily moved
Location: http://some.org/new-URL.html

In Python, at the end of your script:

print("Status: 302 Temporarily moved")
print("Location:http://some.org/new-URL.html")
print # to end the CGI response headers.

Make sure you don't have any other output prior to this on that page.

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