Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 May 1997

Foil 23 Maintaining State with Hidden Fields

From Introduction to CGI Programming ECS400 Spring 97 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *
Any application with multiple forms processed by one or more cgi scripts may use hidden fields to pass information from one form to the next.
Typical example is a shopping basket application. The first page can collect user information.
Note that hidden fields are not secret - the user can see them by selecting "View - Document Source".

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