Form auto submit into popup question

[radthots]

I submit form data to a php module. Depending on certain values, that module may auto-submit the data to an external url for processing. When the external app finishes processing, it evenually redirects back to my url. That works. But I would rather auto-submit into a new browser window so I don't have to wait for the external app to finish before getting back to my site.

I'm new at this. How do I pull it off? I'm using:

<form method='post' name='myform' action='https://www.externalURL.com/cgi-bin/process'>
<input ...............>
<input ................>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> this.document.myform.submit();
</script>

any help appreciated.

[sarahk]

I believe this works

<form method='post' name='myform' action='https://www.externalURL.com/cgi-bin/process' target="_blank"> 

[radthots]

That was easy. Thanks for your help.