Re: Processing Website Forms

From: rrognlie@gamerz.net

Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 12:40:04 +0000

> When processing a customer form on a web page, its fairly easy to take the data
> on the form and email back to an email address and I'm doing that all the time.
>
> But what if, instead of sending the info back as an email (which seems to be
> the automatic option), you want to formulate the data into a text file, attack
> it to an email, and send the info back as an attachment.  Any ideas?  Or better
> still, any source code?  Pretty much any language will do, although VBScript is
> my personal preference, I'll work with whatever.

Your answer is not so much programming as it is MIME.  To send an
attachment
with a message, you need to either convert the attachment to a UUencoded
message
and include it with the main text of your message (and then hope that
their mail
reader groks uuencoding, which most do) or you need to make your message
to them
and multipart mime message...

If I were sending a simple multipart mime message I'd do something like
this...

$ /usr/lib/sendmail targetuser@remote.host <<EOM
From: webprocessor@myhost
Subject: whatever
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="uniqueXXzz"

--uniqueXXzz
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the "main" part

--uniqueXXzz
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the first "attachment".  But since it is text/plain, some
browsers will
display it "inline"

--uniqueXXzz
Content-Type: text/plain

This is another attachment

--uniqueXXzz--
EOM

--
 /  \__  |
 \__/  \ | Richard Rognlie / Sr. Technical Consultant / Sendmail, Inc.
 /  \__/ | http://www.gamerz.net/rrognlie/    <rrognlie@gamerz.net>
 \__/    |

References

Processing Website Forms
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 02 Jan 2001 12:20:55 +0000

Referenced By

Processing Website Forms
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 02 Jan 2001 12:20:55 +0000