Thread: Generic Form Handler

Could you guys give me some ideas on this?

What we want is a form handler on our site that can take inputs from an html form on another site and validate and process them on our server.

So, if there was a generic form, of our design (ie, certain fieldnames), on www.somedomain.com I want the target of that form to be a page on our site that can validate the inputs from the form and either process the details (ie insert into db) or fire back an error (eg you need to enter your surname)

What I don't really want to do is have other sites hosting the processing page as this will open up security issues.

Could this be done with .NET bearing in mind event validation and viewstate? or would classic ASP be more appropriate? I know it's a poor solution, but what about using an IFRAME to hold a full .aspx page hosted on our server?

Any ideas how you'd approach this?

btw, I posted in .NET as I'd ideally like a way to handle this in .NET...

Originally Posted by jmurrayhead

I don't have any working samples as I've never attempted such a thing, but I do believe it is possible via the XmlHttpRequest object. I'd Google for "cross domain posting" or something along those lines and you should see some promising results.

Thanks J.

Would a simple HTML form suffice as the input method? I'm thinking that the form could be running on any type of server and may not support ASP/ASP.NET, but the processing side would be handled on our server.