If it's a straight, unprocessed HTML form, then you're going to have problems. At the very least, you'll need to read the HTML file into a Perl script and use the Perl to insert the $generated_password into the value of the password input. The Perl script would then print an HTML header and print the resulting modified HTML out to the web browser. So instead of loading up http://intranet.yourcompany.com/createuser.html it would be http://intranet.yourcompany.com/createuser.cgi.

If this is unclear, please say so and I will do my best to clarify (or someone else will).

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It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.

In reply to Re: Pre-Populating an HTML form by kwaping
in thread Pre-Populating an HTML form by meinke3

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