okay, be gentle with me... I VI'd my first Perl script one whole week ago :D.

I'm tryin' to brew my own web based e-mail, more for the satisfaction and learning than the necessity (so i'm tryin to steer clear of too many CPAN modules and such, except for cgi.pm).

And since I would like it to actually be usable on, say, a public computer (gee... web based e-mail on a public computer?), I get the feeling that passing the username/pass as plaintext additions to the URL is probably not such a good idea :D.

So the question is this: how can I avoid doing that? I tried using POST to send the info, but that only works on the initial form. Since I display the headers first, with links to the 'meat' of the message, I need to know how to use POST with regular links.

However, if thats not do-able, how might I encrypt the data? Would I have to use Javascript or something? I'm not looking for 30 line snippits here (see above). Just some pointers as to where I should look.

In reply to POST in anchor tags? by Triscuit

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