Question

Dear community,

I read through the CGI scripts documentation and noticed that passing 'anyname=somevalue' in URLs is explicitly allowed for edit.pl HTTP requests, but is not mentioned to be allowed for view.pl.

I tested this with view.pl and noticed that any parameter that I passed in was nicely replaced (using %URLPARAM{"anyname"}%) in the topic.

Is this a bug or by design (I really hope it is by design!)

If it's by design, would it be possible to add this to the documentation.

This lets me pre-fill topic form fields with data, in my case, on a URL unblocking request form that is presented to my users whenever they try to visit a blocked URL.

Environment

-- PatrickDalinghoff - 25 Sep 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

I would have hoped that the docco for VarURLPARAM would suggest that it was for all scripts (as is intended)

-- SvenDowideit - 25 Sep 2008

Seems to be answered.

-- SeanCMorgan - 27 Sep 2008