form action question

[Anon]

I'm currently debugging a pile of code I didn't write and I noticed this line:

<FORM ACTION="/contacts/lookup.php4/personal/7065" NAME="lockdownform" METHOD="post">

the lookup.php4 file has a line
$argv = split("/", $PATH_INFO);
That splits teh additional paramters and uses them (why they do this rather than query string, I don't know)

can you pass parameters like that in the action attribute? It doesnt seem to make sense to me .... the script works but there are sooooo many forms in this one page that its hard to tell if that particular one works.

[[deleted]]

"can you pass parameters like that in the action attribute?"

Yes you can.

I make 'sense' because the format of the URL's are 'clean' without a ton of foo=bar&this=that etc in it.

[Anon]

so could you use foo=bar&this=that in the action attribute even though its not "clean" ??

thanks 🙂

[[deleted]]

yes and no.
yes as in: it can be done,
but no as in: you'll need to modify the script to make it work.