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Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

DevDave — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:06:23 GMT

Thanks so much! I will take a look.

David

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

codegalaxy — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:46:19 GMT

David - actually if you are a developer or kind of understand forms you can grab the module I made - its on my site (http://codegalaxy.com/Default.aspx?tabid=94) (The free form module)

It uses JS to grab the values of the form and then submit them to a site you designate - the source and PA are there if you need help ask cause I didnt put any docs in it and I have been meaning to get it updated for months now.

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

DevDave — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:36:52 GMT

Dylan,

What did you end up using? I too am looking to post a form to LinkPointConnect. Actually, my client wants me to first post the name/address to a CRM (infusionsoft), then post to their LinkPoint merchant account. Just want to know what worked for you.

Thanks,
David

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

codegalaxy — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:24:13 GMT

I was interested in the code you used to actually post the form to a new window - if it was any different that what was here

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

vmasanas — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:08:17 GMT

Dylan,

the module started quite simple but it now has a couple of extra features.

Features:

- it displays a link that once clicked will open a new window that will post to a different site and stay there

- params to the new page are encrypted so the user does not directly see all the params

Configuration:

- you can setup all the sensitive information the form needs in order to make the correct post to the destination page: destination url, method, form name, and an unlimited number of <input> controls to pass info to the page.

- if can work in two modes:

* all users of the module use same credentials for destination page: just enter the login/password once and all user will use the same

* specifiy credentials for each user: admin has an option to setup a given user/password for each user that has access to the module

Statistics:

- urltracking info on the link

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

vmasanas — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:27:11 GMT

Nick this was actually a custom module for a client. If you are still interested contact me by email and let's see if we can arrange it.

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

codegalaxy — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:47:15 GMT

I am working on a very similar module that also allows you to define a form - it changes some specialized form 'tags' into asp.net server controls and then will submit the form to another site of an internal page - sounds like we are doing the same thing almost

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

nbc — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:46:43 GMT

Sounds interesting Vicenc - are you planning to release/sell your module?

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

vmasanas — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:27:01 GMT

I've been working on a similar module lately. Basically you can configure a link on this module to post back to another site in a new window. The module has some configuration settings where you can define destination url, form method (post/get), and a pair of input textboxes (name / value). It's main intention is to provide a step through to a login page on another site. So you have a link on your site that will open a new window with credentials given (module settings) and it will automatically login on the destination site.

Damn I didn't read this thread before, I had to test all the options by myself and stump across all problems discussed here :( But I see I mostly tried all approaches without any good solution. Now I have it working and fits my needs: configurable link (login settings) that calls a new page (passing params encrypted) which does the postback to the new site and stays there.

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

J7Mitch — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:48:44 GMT

codegalaxy wrote:
okay that seems like such a hack though

Hack? I guess you think this because it uses javascript?
If you (or anyone else) comes up with a better solution, please post it.

Requirements:
1. Using ASP.Net, capture posted Form data on server <--easy
2. In the same event, Post that same Form data to another site <--need some technology here
3. Instead of just posting to the other site and receiving a response, make the user's browser go to the other site as if the original Form would have been posting there which is not supposed to happen in ASP.Net because the form always posts back to itself <-- ingenuity needed here

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

codegalaxy — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:07:10 GMT

okay that seems like such a hack though

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

J7Mitch — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:56:56 GMT

codegalaxy wrote:
Okay can HTTPWEBREQUEST be used to send the browser to a page along with the form post? I like the idea of pulling the response back but it destroys the response if its a web page becuase the reference is to our domain not the one where the page this is submitted to.

No, HttpWebRequest is a server-side object so it cannot be used to send the browser to another page.
It doesn't destroy the response, it receives the response as byte data. You could then use that response data in a response.write back to your original page, but that won't leave you on the other site as you noticed.

To move the browser to the other site, you need to use the simple method of changing the Form's action attribute.

If you want to capture the posted data on your server first, and then make the browser post to the other site automatically you need to:
1. write code that captures the data normally on postback
2. use the code that builds the form post into javascript that I posted earlier
3. response.write that javascript out to the browser
This will automatically post the form to the other site, just like you do in normal HTML.

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

alexdresko — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:05:11 GMT

If I understand you correctly, that's exactly what Mitch's code does. It packages up the post data and forwards it on to whatever web page you specify.

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

codegalaxy — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:43:48 GMT

Okay can HTTPWEBREQUEST be used to send the browser to a page along with the form post? I like the idea of pulling the response back but it destroys the response if its a web page becuase the reference is to our domain not the one where the page this is submitted to.

Re: Submitting a form to an external site using DNN

codegalaxy — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:51:10 GMT

Thanks John - now I am having the same problem as peterdotnet from 5/24 - has anybody found a solution for that one?