trying to learn how this code works

[wishmaster22]

I have been trying to teach myself some code, by examing other code. I ran accross this and I know that somehow this redirects a sort of blind link to the value= http

What I don't know is how the action part of the form works. What does the redir.php page have to have on it code wise?

and what is the purpose of this technique. Is it to cloak a link, or possbily a way to get indexed by google?

<B>New:</B><BR>
<FONT COLOR=RED>Descriptive text here<a href="#" onClick="document.frmRedirect.link.value='http://www.blahblah.com/?xxxxxx/johndoe; document.frmRedirect.submit();">Click
here</a></font><BR>
More descriptive text here. <BR>
&nbsp;

( the above code is from a link that was higher up in the code, way before the form code below)

<FORM NAME="frmRedirect" TARGET="_blank" METHOD=POST ACTION="redir.php">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="source" VALUE="">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="link" VALUE="">
</FORM></td>

Thanks...Hope that I posted this in the right forum.

[mrbaseball34]

All it does is submit the link http://www.blahblah.com/?xxxxxx/johndoe to the
redir.php script using the hidden form value named link.

[wishmaster22]

What is the redir.php script? That is the thing that I really don't know much about. Do you know where I can find it? Is it a php page that has some type of code that acts as a relay of sorts?

Thanks

[mrbaseball34]

It is on the site where you got the HTML source code you are showing.
I have no idea what it does because we don't have the source.

[chrislive]

with PHP when you submit a form as in this case that is the page which will handle the request and process the data, eg send email, add to database etc.