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Foil 23 Maintaining State with Hidden Fields

From Introduction to CGI Programming CPS616 Spring 97 -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken * See also color IMAGE

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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