Using multiple ?'s

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 00:10:16 -0800
From: "Kevin 'Kev' Hughes" <kevinh@eit.COM>
Message-id: <199312140810.AAA01537@kmac.eit.com>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Using multiple ?'s

Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> writes:
> 
> I have a delimma folks.  Im looking at the constraints my previous message
> has put on me about using multiple ?'s in a url, and I cant seem to solve
> this problem.  This is what I need to accomplish,

	I'm not sure if this will help, but I came across a similar
problem in making the interactive map at http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/htbin/plotd.
If you want to send a value as well as an ismap x,y coordinate to a
server both at once, perhaps using an intermediate forms page can do the
trick. For instance, say I go to this URL by clicking on an ISMAP image:

	http://server/htbin/mapthing?x,y

	"mapthing" generates or shows a form where I can specify my
options, and when I submit it, it can have extra options as well as the
x, y coordinates. Something like:

	http://server/htbin/mapthing?option1=yes&option2=no&x=23&y=42

	and you can make the same server "mapthing" realize when it's
been passed just the coordinates only as well as name=value pairs, and
do the right thing in each case.
	It's not great, but it works. Hope that helps!

	-- Kevin