Sending FDF data from a ConTeXt pdf form

Sending FDF data from a ConTeXt pdf form

[Daniel Graham]

I have created a c program using Adobe's FDF toolkit (with a python
wrapper) and would like to use a pdf form created with context to
submit FDF data to a specified URL.  My context file includes the
following:

\button{Submit}[SubmitForm{http://localhost/cgi-bin/fdf/record.py\#FDF}]

This apparently sends URL-encoded data (using get?) instead of FDF
data.  A similar pdf form created using latex and pdftex with

\begin{Form}[action=http://localhost/cgi-bin/fdf/record.py\#FDF,
method=post]

works perfectly.  What am I missing in the setup for context?

Thanks for any help!
Dan

Re: Sending FDF data from a ConTeXt pdf form

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:51 PM 9/12/2002 -0400, Daniel Graham wrote:
>I have created a c program using Adobe's FDF toolkit (with a python
>wrapper) and would like to use a pdf form created with context to
>submit FDF data to a specified URL.  My context file includes the
>following:
>
>\button{Submit}[SubmitForm{http://localhost/cgi-bin/fdf/record.py\#FDF}]
>
>This apparently sends URL-encoded data (using get?) instead of FDF
>data.  A similar pdf form created using latex and pdftex with
>
>\begin{Form}[action=http://localhost/cgi-bin/fdf/record.py\#FDF,
>method=post]
>
>works perfectly.  What am I missing in the setup for context?

   \setupfields[method=XML]

or

   \setupfields[methods=FDF]

will give you the other methods

Hans

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